With an increasing number of Web services providing similar functionalities, Quality of Service (QoS) is becoming an important criterion for selection of the best available servic...
Ziqiang Xu, Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley, Farhana ...
Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...
The emerging standards for the specification of Web Services support the publication of the static interfaces of the operations they may execute. However, little attention is paid...
Defeasible reasoning is a rule-based approach for efficient reasoning with incomplete and inconsistent information. Such reasoning is useful for many applications in the Semantic W...
Nick Bassiliades, Efstratios Kontopoulos, Grigoris...
Organising large-scale Web information retrieval systems into hierarchies of topic-specific search resources can improve both the quality of results and the efficient use of com...