Semantics, Web services, and Web processes promise better re-use, universal interoperability and integration. Semantics has been recognized as the primary tool to address the challenges of a broad spectrum of heterogeneity and for improving automation through machine understandable descriptions. "Semantic Web Services, Processes and Applications" ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2006, held in Vienna, Austria in September 2006. The 20 revised full papers, 5 industrial papers, and 15 short papers presented together with an invited paper and the abstract of an invited talk were carefully reviewed and ...
Information intermediation is the foundation stone of some of the most successful Internet companies, and is perhaps second only to the Internet Infrastructure companies. On the heels of information integration and interoperability, this book on information brokering discusses the next step in information interoperability and integration. The ...
Positive Polynomials in Control originates from an invited session presented at the IEEE CDC 2003 and gives a comprehensive overview of existing results in this quickly emerging area. This carefully edited book collects important contributions from several fields of control, optimization, and mathematics, in order to show different views and ...
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the First International Workshop on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition, SWSWPC 2004, held in San Diego, CA, USA in July 2004.The 9 revised full papers presented together with an introduction by the volume editors, a panel summary and the extended abstract of an invited ...
Metadata is increasingly used as a data modelling process in data management. This guide to multimedia data and metadata management gathers together information from the field's leading experts. Topics include video databases, speech documents in a text retrieval system, and future directions.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2008, held in Karlsruhe, Germany, during October 26-30, 2008. The volume contains 43 revised full research papers selected from a total of 261 submissions, of which an additional 3 papers were referred to the semantic Web in-use track; 11 papers ...
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