The potential to achieve dynamic, scalable and cost-effective marketplaces and eCommerce
solutions has driven recent research efforts towards so-called Semantic Web Services that …

The most important attribute of geospatial platforms is their unique potential to aggregate a
multitude of public and private geographic data sets, providing access to data from …

This cutting-edge reference explores the dynamic synergy between pervasive computing,
and wireless communications that is breaking the ground for Ambient Intelligence (AmI) …

This article proposes a model-driven methodology to design and develop semantic Web
service applications and their components, described according to the emerging WSMO …

We present a framework for designing and developing Semantic Web Service applications
that span over several enterprises by applying techniques, methodologies, and notations …

Protocol mediation enables interaction between communicating parties where there is a
shared conceptual model of the intent and purpose of the communication, and where the …

This document presents an ontology called Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO) for
describing various aspects related to Semantic Web Services. Taking the Web Service …

The adoption of service-oriented approach and the increasing of business-to-consumer
applications have produced impacts over software development. Traditional tasks, such as …

AFIS (Advanced Fire Information System) is a joint initiative between CSIR and Eskom, the
South African electricity utility. AFIS infers fire occurrences from processed remotely sensed …

Nowadays remote and ubiquitous access to data and applications is an essential need in
business environments which poses several challenges to software developers. A Service …