Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of expressing preferences among nonfunctional properties of services in a Web service architecture. In such a context, semantic and non-f...
In this document, we describe a light-weighted ontology mediation method that allows users to send semantic queries to distant data repositories to browse for learning object meta...
Dynamic behavior is inherent in virtual organizations. Semantics has to be processed to manage dynamism and other properties like state, life cycle, faults, and others. In our pap...
The popularity of social information systems has been driven by their ability to help users manage, organize and share online resources. Though the research exploring the use of ta...
Traditional workload management methods mainly focus on the current system status while information about the interaction between queued and running transactions is largely ignore...
Gang Luo, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Curt J. Ellmann, Mi...