Web services are distributed processes with a public description of their behavior, or contract. The availability of repositories of Web service descriptions enables interesting f...
The Home Network is a pervasive environment by nature. Its openness to dynamic distributed and heterogeneous devices brings great challenges in home application design. We present...
Today’s information technologies, such as autonomic computing, offer companies new ways to do businesses. Those that fail to embrace and use such advantages in the next years ar...
There have been significant efforts in providing semantic descriptions for Web services, including the approach as exemplified by OWLS. Part of the semantic description in OWL-S is...
In order to tackle the entire web service life cycle, it is necessary to face how to model systems based on service functionality and also how to add extra-functional properties to...