Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-speciļ¬c search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute userā...
Consider a scenario where Jane is at an airport. She wants to find a restaurant with healthy food and short waiting time on the way to her terminal. The airport can provide such s...
The common vision of pervasive computing environments requires a very large range of devices and software components to interoperate seamlessly. From the assumption that these dev...
: Matchmaking between offers and requests is an essential mechanism in electronic market places. Description Logics have been proposed as a appropriate framework for representing o...
Service providers as we know them nowadays are the always-on āstaticā web service providers, that aim at Five9 availability (99.999%). Formal, or de-facto, standards, such as ...