Abstract. Semantic Similarity relates to computing the similarity between conceptually similar but not necessarily lexically similar terms. Typically, semantic similarity is comput...
Data on the Web is increasingly being used for discovery and exploratory tasks. Unlike traditional fact-finding tasks that require only the typical single-query and response parad...
Schema matching is a crucial task to gather information of the same domain. This is more true on the web, where a large number of data sources are available and require to be matc...
The rapid development of the Internet and of distributed computing has led to a proliferation of online service providers such as digital libraries, web information sources, electr...
When having repeated interactions with a service provider, a service consumer might desire guarantees on the delivery of the service. These guarantees involve both functional and n...