This chapter reviews the contribution of new information-communication technologies to the
advancement of educational assessment. Improvements can be described in terms of …

Zusammenfassung Die Gestaltung und Weiterentwicklung großer Anwendungslandschaften
gilt heutzutage als eine der größten Herausforderungen in der Softwaretechnik. Als …

Services are subject to constant change and variation, leading to continuous redesign and
improvement. However, service changes shouldn't be disruptive by requiring radical …

Every year, contesters submit contributions to the Web Service Challenge (WSC) in order to
determine which service composition system is the most efficient one. In this challenge …

Semantic web service composition is about finding services from a repository that are able to
accomplish a specified task if executed. The task is defined in a form of a composition …

Automatic syntactic service composition problem consists in automatically selecting
services, from a registry, by matching their input and output data. The composite service …

Abstract Recently the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) produced a standard set of
“Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema”(SAWSDL). SAWSDL provides a …

Based on semantically annotated Web APIs, automatic Web API composition can be
implemented easily. The operation can greatly improve efficiency of building a software …

This paper explores the extraction of features from color imagery for recognition tasks,
especially face recognition. The well-known Gabor filter, which is typically defined as a …

As Web service technologies mature in recent years, a growing number of geospatial Web
services designed to interoperate spatial information over the network have emerged …