In this paper, we survey the models and approaches applied to the middleware services of pervasive computing environments. Architectural styles and patterns introduced in the doma...
The growing number of web applications in the global economy has made it critically important to develop secure and reliable software to support the economy's increasing depen...
In component-based software development, it is important to ensure interoperability between components based on their unambiguous semantic descriptions, in order to obtain a viabl...
An essential part of modern enterprise software development is metadata. Mainstream metadata formats, including XML deployment descriptors and Java 5 annotations, suffer from a n...
Motivation: Motif detection for DNA sequences has many important applications in biological studies, e.g., locating binding sites and regulatory signals, and designing genetic prob...