Science requires collaboration. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of coupling current social networking techniques to science gateways to provide a scientific collabor...
Software metrics is vital for the management of software development, especially when a new technology is adopted and established practices have yet to be developed. As a kind of s...
Abstract. Semantic Web Services were developed with the goal of automating the integration of business processes on the Web. The main idea is to express the functionality of the se...
A current trend in the web services community is to define coordination mechanisms to execute collaborative tasks involving multiple organizations. Following this tendency, this w...
Data intensive applications, e.g. in life sciences, pose new efficiency challenges to the service composition problem. Since today computing power is mainly increased by multiplica...