Abstract. One of the most difficult obstacles Web Services have to overcome in the attempt to exploit the true potential of the World Wide Web is heterogeneity. Caused by the natur...
Computer science has served to insulate programs and programmers from knowledge of the underlying mechanisms used to manipulate information, however this fiction is increasingly h...
Neil Gershenfeld, David Dalrymple, Kailiang Chen, ...
T his paper outlines a formal theory for de fining action concepts in taxonomical knowledge representation languages, in a form closely related to description logics. The central p...
Design rules express constraints on the behavior and structure of a program. These rules can help ensure that a program follows a set of established practices, and avoids certain ...
The Web is moving toward a collection of interoperating Web services. Achieving this interoperability requires dynamic discovery of Web services on the basis of their capabilities...