At the "functional level", Semantic Web Services (SWS) are described akin to planning operators, with preconditions and effects relative to an ontology; the ontology prov...
—At present, Web services are created and updated on the fly. It has already beyond the human ability to analysis them and generate the composition plan manually. It is a problem...
In the perspective of a sustainable urban planning, it is necessary to investigate cities in a holistic way and to accept surprises in the response of urban environments to a part...
One of the problems of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) is the lack of user support for solving KDD problems. Current Data Mining (DM) systems enable the user to manually des...
IT-security has become a much diversified field and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), in particular, do not have the financial ability to implement a holistic IT-secur...