Abstract. Traditional workflow enactment systems and workflow design processes view the workflow as a one-time interaction with the various data sources, executing a series of step...
Panayiotis Neophytou, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Alexan...
The unification of Semantic Web query languages under the SPARQL standard and the development of commercial-quality implementations are encouraging industries to use semantic tech...
Malena R. Mesarina, Venugopal Srinivasmurthy, Nic ...
Sensor networks, that consist of potentially several thousands of nodes each with sensing (heat, sound, light, magnetism, etc.) and wireless communication capabilities, provide gr...
A query optimizer compares alternative plans in its search space to find the best plan for a given query. Depending on the search space and the enumeration algorithm, optimizers v...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Jun Rao, Guy M. Lohman, Dengfeng Ga...
If the model of free-form queries, which has proved successful for HTML based search on the Web, is made available for Grid services, it will serve as a powerful tool for scientis...