Expert systems (ESs) are complex information systems that are expensive to build and difficult to validate. Numerous knowledge representation strategies such as rules, semantic net...
For the composition of Web services non-functional characteristics are commonly considered criteria for finding and selecting available services. Our work focuses on a mechanism ...
Michael C. Jaeger, Gregor Rojec-Goldmann, Gero M&u...
Two-step MIR inequalities are valid inequalities derived from a facet of a simple mixedinteger set with three variables and one constraint. In this paper we investigate how to eff...
: A service contract typically specifies the service level, i.e., the quality parameters of the service to be performed. In addition to this static part, there is also the need to ...
This paper presents a method for modelling graphics scenes consisting of multiple volumetric objects. A twolevel hierarchical representation is employed, which enables the reducti...