Web services are a consolidated reality of the modern Web with tremendous, increasing
impact on everyday computing tasks. They turned the Web into the largest, most accepted …

Precisely when the success of artificial intelligence (AI) sub-symbolic techniques makes
them be identified with the whole AI by many non-computer-scientists and non-technical …

The Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) promises significant improvements for the
manufacturing industry by facilitating the integration of manufacturing systems by Digital …

Abstract Service-oriented computing (SOC) represents a paradigm for building distributed
computing applications over the Internet. In the past decade, Web services composition has …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently received considerable interest from both
academia and industry that are working on technologies to develop the future Internet. It is a …

In previous chapters we have discussed the architecture of information systems (Chapter 1),
middleware and enterprise application integration (Chapters 2 and 3), and the basics of …

The main objective of this thesis is to contribute to the theory of Conceptual Modeling by
proposing ontological foundations for structural conceptual models. Conceptual Modeling is …

The Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition presents practical tools
and techniques for implementing natural language processing in computer systems. Along …

Artificial Intelligence and Tutoring Systems: Computational and Cognitive Approaches to the
Communication of Knowledge focuses on the cognitive approaches, methodologies …

The OWL Web Ontology Language is a new formal language for representing ontologies in
the Semantic Web. OWL has features from several families of representation languages …