Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking

Activities such as Web Services and the Semantic Web are working to create a distributed web of machine understandable data. We address three important problems that need to be solved to realize this vision. We discuss the problem of scalable and ...

Richly interlinked, machine-understandable data constitute the basis for the Semantic Web. We provide a framework, CREAM, that allows for creation of metadata. While the annotation mode of CREAM allows creation of metadata for existing Web pages, the ...

The Semantic Web is a new layer of the Internet that enables semantic representation of the contents of existing Web pages. Using common ontologies, human users sketch out the most important facts in models that act as intelligent whiteboards. Once ...

Real-scale Semantic Web applications, such as Knowledge Portals and E-Marketplaces, require the management of voluminous repositories of resource metadata. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) enables the creation and exchange of metadata as any ...

We present an XML programming language designed for the implementation of Web services. XL is portable and fully compliant with W3C standards such as XQuery, XML Protocol, and XML Schema. One of the key features of XL is that it allows programmers to ...

If an e-services approach to electronic commerce is to become widespread, standardisation of ontologies, message content and message protocols will be necessary. In this paper, we present a lifecycle of a business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce ...

Web services--Web-accessible programs and devices--are a key application area for the Semantic Web. With the proliferation of Web services and the evolution towards the Semantic Web comes the opportunity to automate various Web services tasks. Our ...