Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...
Several description frameworks to semantically describe and match services on the one hand and service requests on the other have been presented in the literature. Many of the curr...
Research in the Life Sciences depends on the integration of large, distributed and heterogeneous data sources and web services. The discovery of which of these resources are the mo...
In order to realize the idea of the Semantic Web, many tools and technologies need to be developed, including a query language. One of the most important technologies that creates ...
It is well understood that the key for successful Semantic Web applications depends on the availability of machine understandable meta-data. We describe the Information Grid, a pr...