The increasing availability of multimedia (MM) resources, Web services as well as content, on the Web raises the need to automatically discover and process resources out of distrib...
Stefan Dietze, Neil Benn, John Domingue, Alex Conc...
Matching descriptions of user requirements against descriptions of service capabilities is crucial for the discovery of appropriate services for a given task. To improve the precis...
Sven Schade, Arnd Sahlmann, Michael Lutz, Florian ...
: A service contract typically specifies the service level, i.e., the quality parameters of the service to be performed. In addition to this static part, there is also the need to ...
We tackle the problem of providing rigorous formal foundations to current software engineering technologies for web services. We focus on two of the most used XML-based languages f...
Alessandro Lapadula, Rosario Pugliese, Francesco T...
Matchmaking arises when supply and demand meet in an electronic marketplace, or when agents search for a web service to perform some task, or even when recruiting agencies match c...
Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M....