This paper, in the first chapter summarizes the state of the art in SCM, showing the evolution along the last 25 years. Chapter 2 shows the current issues and current research wor...
The increasing popularity of XML Web services motivates us to examine if it is feasible to substitute one vendor service for another when using a Web-based application, assuming th...
al modelling studies the different abstraction methods of the real world. The conception and the execution of virtual worlds depend strongly of the type of conceptual models. Exis...
To programmatically discover and interact with services in ubiquitous computing environments, an application needs to solve two problems: (1) is it semantically meaningful to inte...
The discovery of services that are appropriate for answering a given question is a crucial task in the open and distributed environment of web services for geographic information. ...