Scripts are widely used to design and run scientific experiments. Scripting languages are
easy to learn and use, and they allow complex tasks to be specified and executed in fewer …

Semantic Web technologies have been around for a while. However, such technologies
have had little impact on the development of real-world Web applications to date. With linked …

Abstract One promise of Semantic Web applications is to seamlessly deal with
heterogeneous data. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) has become widely adopted …

In scientific research, integration and synthesis require a common understanding of where
data come from, how much they can be trusted, and what they may be used for. To make …

Currently a large number of Web sites are driven by Content Management Systems (CMS)
which manage textual and multimedia content but also-inherently-carry valuable information …

Originated from the military domain, Situation Awareness (SAW) is proposed with the aim to
obtain information superiority through information fusion and thus to achieve decision …

Approaches to Natural language processing (NLP) may be classified along a double
dichotomy open/opaque-strict/adaptive. The former axis relates to the possibility of …

Abstract Background SSWAP (S imple S emantic W eb A rchitecture and P rotocol;
pronounced" swap") is an architecture, protocol, and platform for using reasoning to …

Sensor networks and the Internet of Things have driven the evolution of traditional electric
power distribution networks towards a new paradigm referred to as Smart Grid. However, the …

The ability to provide appropriate and complete API descriptions to let users discover
services that satisfy a set of requirements and compose them to fulfil more complex users' …