There is an increasing demand for sharing learning resources between existing learning
resource systems to support reusability, exchangeability, and adaptability. The learning …

Most current security solutions are based on perimeter security. However, Cloud computing
breaks the organization perimeters. When data resides in the Cloud, they reside outside the …

WS-Agreement is one of the most widely used SLA specifications. An advantage of WS-
Agreement over other agreement metamodels is that it allows one to define conditional and …

Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm to offer on-demand IT services to customers. The
access control to resources located in the cloud is one of the critical aspects to enable …

Abstract Knowledge engineering often involves using the opinions of experts, and very
frequently of a group of experts. Experts often cooperate in creating a knowledge base that …

Data integration is one of the most challenging tasks for digital collections whose data are
stored across various repositories. Data integration across digital repositories has several …

Early manufacturability feedback is critical for reducing product cost and lead-time. This
paper describes a new architecture and platform for authoring and applying …

End users' demand for electronic contents and services is increasing dramatically. Vendors
and service providers might want to obtain benefits by charging for their electronic contents …

Abstract As Cloud Computing evolves, both customers and Cloud Service Providers are
starting to require Intercloud scenarios where different clouds have to interact each other …

Efforts have been made in the Semantic Web to combine rules with ontologies. One result of
these efforts is the development of the Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) which is …