Abstract—The pervasiveness of complex communication services and the need for end-users to play a greater role in developing communication services have resulted in the creation ...
Yingbo Wang, Yali Wu, Andrew A. Allen, Barbara Esp...
Abstract. Recent research showed the benefits of adopting formal ontologies as a means for accessing heterogeneous data sources. The use of an ontology not only provides a uniform...
The Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problem (VCSP) is a general framework encompassing many optimisation problems. We discuss precisely what it means for a problem to be modelled in...
Service-Oriented Computing allows new applications to be developed by using and/or combining services offered by different providers. In several cases a service needs sensitive in...
We present a component-based description language for heterogeneous systems composed of several data flow processing components and a unique eventbased controller. Descriptions a...