: The use of patterns in data management is not new: in data warehousing, data marts are simple conceptual schemas with exactly one core entity, describing facts, surrounded by mul...
Alessandro Campi, Stefano Ceri, Andrea Maesani, St...
A service-oriented architecture enables composite applications that support business processes to be defined and built dynamically from loosely coupled and interoperable web servi...
Service matchmaking and composition has recently drawn increasing attention in the research community. Most existing algorithms construct chains of services based on exact matches...
Reuse of software entities such as components or web services raise composition issues since, most of the time, they present mismatching behavioural interfaces. Here, we particula...
Due to the large success of wireless networks and handheld devices, the ambient intelligence (AmI) paradigm is becoming a reality. One of the most challenging objectives to achiev...
Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Jinshan Liu, Nikolaos Georganta...