Abstract. One of the most difficult obstacles Web Services have to overcome in the attempt to exploit the true potential of the World Wide Web is heterogeneity. Caused by the natur...
The Semantic Web is an endeavour aiming at enhancing Web data with meta-data and data processing, as well as processing methods specifying the “meaning” of such data and allowi...
A common practice in conceptual modeling is to separate the conceptual from the data model. Although very intuitive, this approach is inadequate for many complex domains, in which...
A major issue in the study of semantic Web services concerns the matching problem of Web services. Various techniques for this problem have been proposed. Typical ones include FSM ...
Conceptual modeling techniques such as EER, ORM and to some extent the UML have been developed in the past for building information systems. These techniques or suitable extensions...