Geographical context is required of many information retrieval tasks in which the target of the search may be documents, images or records which are referenced to geographical spac...
Christopher B. Jones, Harith Alani, Douglas Tudhop...
Formulating and executing queries over distributed, autonomous and heterogeneous resources is an important research area. The advent of the Internet and the Web and their inherent...
This paper describes a kernel based Web Services (abbreviated as service) matching mechanism for service discovery and integration. The matching mechanism tries to exploit the lat...
Yu Jianjun, Guo Shengmin, Su Hao, Zhang Hui, Xu Ke
Location-based services like reminders, electronic graffiti, and tourist guides normally require a custom, location-sensitive database that must be custom-tailored for the applicat...
Service level agreements (SLAs) impose many nonfunctional requirements on services. Business analysts specify and check these requirements in business process models using tools s...
Hua Xiao, Brian Chan, Ying Zou, Jay W. Benayon, Bi...