Cross-domain information is essential for building energy performance assessment. The
heterogeneous nature of this information is a major source for inefficient assessments. The …

Shadow detection and removal in real scene images are a significant problem for target
detection. This work proposes an improved shadow detection and removal algorithm for …

During the development of service-based software systems, Geospatial Service (GS)
replacement is often performed, which requires the discovery of functionally similar services …

One of the main assets of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is composition, which
consists in developing higher-level services by re-using well-known functionality provided …

With the rapid growth of Web services, the demand for discovering the optimal services to
satisfy the users' requirements is no longer an easy task. The critical issue in the process of …

The cognitive effort required for humans to perceive similarities and relationships between
words is considerable. Measuring similarity and relatedness between text components such …

Software development deals with larger design and development pressures and requires
software system to be developed in a shorter period. A big problem encountered during …

In the internet environment, web services based on representational state transfer (REST)
have become the de facto standard. The addition of semantics is intended to enhance the …

Web services are meaningful only if potential users may find and execute them. Universal
Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) help businesses, organizations, and other …

Web service (WS) discovery is an essential task for implementing complex applications in a
service oriented architecture (SOA), such as selecting, composing, and providing services …