As the Semantic Web (SW) is being automatically populated with large number of RDF triples scalability issues related to wide scale reasoning occur. We believe these difficulties ...
The need to add semantic information to web-accessible services has created a growing research activity in this area. Standard initiatives such as OWL-S and WSDL enable the automat...
In the context of Service Oriented Computing, contracts are descriptions of the externally observable behaviour of services. Given a group of collaborating services, their contract...
Abstract. Software development for embedded systems gains momentum but faces many challenges. Especially the constraints of deeply embedded systems, i.e., extreme resource and perf...
The increasing number of Semantic Web applications that work with ontologies implies an increased need for building ontological knowledge bases. In order to improve ontologies duri...