An ever increasing amount of valuable information is stored in Web databases, "hidden" behind search interfaces. To save the user's effort in manually exploring eac...
Service composition aims to provide an efficient and accurate model of a service, based on which the global service oriented architecture (SOA) can be realized, allowing value add...
One of the challenges citizens and businesses face in interacting with governments for entitled services or compliance services is to find the right set of regulations and rules th...
The goal of Digital Earth (www.digitalearth.gov) is to create a virtual representation of our planet that enables a person to explore and interact with the vast amounts of natural...
Collaborative web applications such as Facebook, Flickr and Yelp present new challenges for storing and querying large amounts of data. As users and developers are focused more on...
Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, David A. Patterson,...