SP4PS: service process rewriting for efficient and proper web services composition
Web services have become a key technology to implement distributed systems and perform applications' integration. Service composition involves the development of customised services often by discovering, integrating, and executing existing services. ...
Topological XML data cube construction
The usage of online analytical processing is now widespread, having emerged primarily in areas of business information systems using relational databases. However, the XML tree-based model is quite different from the relational model in mainstream OLAP. ...
W-entropy method to measure the influence of the members from social networks
With the rapid advance of the social media, the challenge is to develop new techniques and standards to measure the influence of people or brands in the online social networks. Each website has its way of ranking the display of the most influential ...
Repairing broken RDF links in the web of data
In the web of data, linked datasets are changed over time. These changes include updating on features and address of entities. The address change in RDF entities causes their corresponding links to be broken. Broken link is one of the major obstacles ...
The aggregation of heterogeneous metadata in web-based cultural heritage collections: a case study
In this paper, we discuss some issues related to digital libraries that are born as aggregators of cultural heritage resources harvested from different distributed digital repositories. Whenever such aggregations fall short of providing a real service ...