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 …

The next Web generation promises to deliver Semantic Web Services (SWS); services that
are self-described and amenable to automated discovery, composition and invocation. A …

There has been a shift in research towards the convergence of the Internet-of-Things (IoT)
and cloud computing paradigms motivated by the need for IoT applications to leverage the …

Due to the web services' heterogeneous nature, which stems from the definition of several
XML-based standards to overcome platform and language dependence, web services have …

Abstract Service interface description languages such as WSDL, and related standards, are
evolving rapidly to provide a foundation for interoperation between Web services. At the …

Current industry standards for describing Web Services focus on ensuring interoperability
across diverse platforms, but do not provide a good foundation for automating the use of …

Data warehouses are databases of a specific kind that periodically collect information about
the activities being performed by an organization. This information is then accumulated over …

Creating Web processes using Web service technology gives us the opportunity for
selecting new services, which best suit our need at the moment. Doing this automatically …

We present an OWL-S service composition planner, called OWLS-Xplan, that allows for fast
and flexible composition of OWL-S services in the semantic Web. OWLS-Xplan converts …

Smart Cities are advancing towards an instrumented, integrated, and intelligent living space,
where Internet of Things (IoT), mobile technologies and next generation networks are …