XML is designed to facilitate data exchange between applications. However, XML and its schema languages do not express semantics but rather the document structure, such as the nes...
: The challenge of the semantic web is the provision of distributed information with well defined meaning, understandable for different parties. Particularly, applications should b...
Ontologies are increasingly used in various applications (e.g., semantic interoperability, data integration). In particular, there is a trend in applying ontologies to improve resu...
Abstract. Developing service based complex applications (service composition) has become an important area of research in SOA. In spite of this, there has been little effort to und...
Current workflow management systems (WFMSs) are only applicable in a reliable and secure manner, if the business process (BP) to be supported is wellstructured. As ad hoc deviatio...