When describing Web services, one of the obvious aspects that needs representing is Quality of Service” (QoS), the capability of a Web service to meet an acceptable level of ser...
The promise of E-Government (and its more recent spin-offs of EDemocracy, E-Participation, E-Procurement, and a range of other "E-`s") is to engage citizenry in governme...
John Carlo Bertot, Paul T. Jaeger, Charles R. McCl...
The reasoning tasks that can be performed with semantic web service descriptions depend on the quality of the domain ontologies used to create these descriptions. However, buildin...
Marta Sabou, Chris Wroe, Carole A. Goble, Gilad Mi...
This paper reports on work in progress to produce a unified Quality of Service (QoS) ontology This ontology must be applicable to the main scenarios currently identified such as Q...
A key limitation of current Web services standards is the inability to differentiate service instances at runtime using (nonfunctional) qualities of services (QoS). Such differe...