In order to successfully benefit from global markets, companies must expand their activities over the world. This expansion is usually performed by the development of software involving all heterogeneous and autonomous partners. The user requirement ...

Over the past few years, an exceptional interest has been taken in the area of Service-Oriented Computing. Particularly, a remarkable effort has been made in the context of Web service discovery, a very important and active research domain. In fact, the ...

In recent years, dozens of publicly accessible Linked Data repositories containing vast amounts of knowledge presented in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) format have been set up worldwide. By utilizing the SPARQL query language, users can ...

This paper proposes a system for social reading based on EPUB3, a standardized format for EPUB publications. The system is to collect and manage reading-related information, such as EPUB publications' metadata, bookmarks, and annotations, as well as ...

To support mashup of heterogeneous lifelog services, we have previously implemented the lifelog common data model (LLCDM). The previous LLCDM was implemented with MySQL, where various types of application-specific data (e.g., numeric values, text, JSON ...

The traffic produced by the periodic crawling activities of Web robots often represents a good fraction of the overall websites traffic, thus causing some non-negligible effects on their performance. Our study focuses on the traffic generated on the ...

Big Data, big number of users, and cloud computing are driving the adoption of new database architectures, particularly NoSQL databases. Both research and practice indicate that traditional universal DBMS architecture hardly satisfies new trends in data ...

In recent years, social network research has advanced significantly. People perceive the Web increasingly as a social medium that fosters interaction among people, sharing of experiences and knowledge, group activities, community formation and ...

In this talk we will argue that developments in science will continue with increasing speed, opening completely new vistas. Why this is so is not just due to the usual trivial observations such as "developments are happening very fast and it seems even ...

Interoperability is a qualitative property of computing infrastructures that denotes the ability of the sending and receiving systems to exchange and properly interpret information objects across system boundaries.

Since this property is not given by ...