Contracts are behavioural descriptions of Web services. We devise a theory of contracts that formalises the compatibility of a client to a service, and the safe replacement of a s...
Geographical gazetteers are necessary in a wide variety of applications. In the past, the construction of such gazetteers has been a tedious, manual process and only recently have...
Adrian Popescu, Gregory Grefenstette, Houda Bouamo...
Abstract—One of the key concepts of service-oriented computing is dynamic binding which favors on-demand integration of services into a running system. Companies can outsource ta...
Concept representation in ontology is a basic problem on the Semantic Web. In human cognitive process, object typicality plays an important role in concept representation. Traditi...
A bio-inspired language is presented. Its terms are processes enclosed into boxes with typed interaction sites. The main feature of the formalism lays in the fact that the key-loc...