A major problem of current Web search is that search queries are usually short and ambiguous, and thus are insufficient for specifying the precise user needs. To alleviate this pro...
Recently, enterprise interoperability has been improved by the Web Service technology, making available an ever-growing number of services. Service discovery is considered a crucia...
Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Me...
Many Web information services utilize techniques of information extraction (IE) to collect important facts from the Web. To create more advanced services, one possible method is t...
Providing QoS (Quality of Service) in batch resources against the uncertainty of resource availability due to the space-sharing nature of scheduling policies is a critical capabil...
Yang-Suk Kee, Carl Kesselman, Daniel Nurmi, Richar...
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...