partners are abstracted as Web services, we have introduced additional constructs to represent human users and define human interaction patterns. Each business process defined in o...
Ubiquitous and pervasive applications are aware of the context of the used resources. This class of application can benefit from mechanisms to discover resources (devices and sens...
Online offerings such as web search, news portals, and e-commerce applications face the challenge of providing high-quality service to a large, heterogeneous user base. Recent eff...
Apparently computer technology is shifting its focus, with individual users not being the main target any more. The evolution of Web 2.0 technologies is promoting the development ...
As originally conceived, the World Wide Web was intended for the purpose of sharing information. Many websites realise this aim by publishing pages from a data repository which su...