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ESWS
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Effects of Using a Research Context Ontology for Query Expansion
This thesis investigates the question whether and how ontologies such as the ones currently evolving in the Semantic Web can serve as knowledge structures for the generation of que...
Carola Carstens
ESWS
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Decidability of SHI with Transitive Closure of Roles
This paper investigates a Description Logic, namely SHI+, which extends SHI by adding transitive closure of roles. The resulting logic SHI+ allows transitive closure of roles to oc...
Chan Le Duc
EPEW
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Performance of Auctions and Sealed Bids
We develop models of automated E-commerce techniques, which predict the economic outcomes of these decision mechanisms, including the price attained by a good and the resulting inc...
Erol Gelenbe, László Györfi
EPEW
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Passage-End Analysis
Abstract. Passage-end calculations are a new style of passage measurement for eXtended Stochastic Probes (XSP) [1] which add the ability to split the analysis into several cases de...
Allan Clark, Adam Duguid, Stephen Gilmore
EPEW
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Modelling Zoned RAID Systems Using Fork-Join Queueing Simulation
Abstract. RAID systems are ubiquitously deployed in storage environments, both as standalone storage solutions and as fundamental components of virtualised storage platforms. Accur...
Abigail S. Lebrecht, Nicholas J. Dingle, William J...
ECOWS
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
RESTful SPARQL? You name it!: aligning SPARQL with REST and resource orientation
SPARQL is the standard query language for RDF, but currently is a read-only language defined in a way similar to SQL: Queries can be formulated, are submitted to a single process...
Erik Wilde, Michael Hausenblas
ECOWS
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Remote Batch Invocation for Web Services: Document-Oriented Web Services with Object-Oriented Interfaces
—The Web Service Description Language defines a service as a procedure whose inputs and outputs are structured XML data values, sometimes called documents. In this paper we argu...
Ali Ibrahim, Marc Fisher II, William R. Cook, Eli ...
ECOWS
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Model and Algorithm for Self-Adaptation in Service-oriented Systems
Abstract—In this paper, we address the problem of selfadaptation in internet-scale service-oriented systems. Services need to adapt by select the best neighboring services solely...
Christoph Dorn, Daniel Schall, Schahram Dustdar
ECOWS
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Framework for the Evaluation of Semantics-Based Service Composition Approaches
—The benefits of service composition are being largely acknowledged in the literature nowadays. However, as the amount of available services increases, it becomes difficult to ...
Eduardo Silva, Luís Ferreira Pires, Marten ...
ECOWS
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Indirect Reciprocity in Policy-Based Helping Experiments
—In service-oriented architectures, participants keep interacting by exchanging tasks, in order to increase their benefit. Since carrying out a task incurs costs, and participan...
Christian von der Weth, Klemens Böhm, Thorben...