ESWS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
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...
ESWS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
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...
EPEW
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
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...
EPEW
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
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...
EPEW
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. RAID systems are ubiquitously deployed in storage environments, both as standalone storage solutions and as fundamental components of virtualised storage platforms. Accur...
ECOWS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
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...
ECOWS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
—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...
ECOWS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
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...
ECOWS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
—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 ...
ECOWS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
—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...