Hierarchies are one of the most common structures used to understand and conceptualise
the world. Within the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) planning, which deals with the …

Hierarchies are the most common structure used to understand the world better. In galaxies,
for instance, multiple-star systems are organised in a hierarchical system. Then …

QoS as an important criterion has attracted more and more attention in the service selection
process. Various QoS-aware service selection methods have been proposed in recent …

The service-oriented paradigm promises a novel degree of interoperability between
business processes, and is leading to a major shift in way distributed applications are …

Abstract Business Process Management (BPM) is a central element of today's organizations.
Over the years, its main focus has been the support of business processes (BPs) in highly …

Web service composition (WSC) is the task of combining a chain of connected single
services together to create a more complex and value-added composite service. Quality of …

Automated Planning is an old area of AI that focuses on the development of techniques for
finding a plan that achieves a given goal from a given set of initial states as quickly as …

Statistical language models (LMs) have been applied in several software engineering
applications. However, they have issues in dealing with ambiguities in the names of …

This paper addresses automatic service composition (ASC) as a means to create new value-
added services dynamically and automatically from existing services in service-oriented …

Domotics, concerned with the realization of intelligent home environments, is a novel field
which can highly benefit from solutions inspired by service-oriented principles to enhance …