Web services are a consolidated reality of the modern Web with tremendous, increasing
impact on everyday computing tasks. They turned the Web into the largest, most accepted …

After introducing the core constituents of mashups, the components, in this chapter we study
what it means to integrate different components into composite applications, that is …

There is a great deal of interest in big data, focusing mostly on dataset size. An equally
important dimension of big data is variety, where the focus is to process highly …

The need for integration of all types of client and server applications that were not initially
designed to interoperate is gaining popularity. One of the reasons for this popularity is the …

The evolution of the Web over the past few years has fostered the growth of a handful of new
technologies (eg Blogs, Wiki's, Web Services). Recently web mashups have emerged as the …

The Web has undergone a tremendous change from a primarily publication platform towards
a participatory and “programmable” platform, where a large number of heterogeneous Web …

Context: The emergence of the long-tail in the market of software applications is shifting the
role of end-users from mere consumers to becoming developers of applications addressing …

In recent years, systems have emerged that enable end users to “mash” together existing
web services to build new web sites. However, little is known about how well end users …

Data sets are generated today at an ever increasing rate in a host of new formats and
vocabularies, each with its own data quality issues and limited, if any, semantic annotations …

Empowering end-users to wire Internet of Things (IoT) objects (things and services) together
would allow them to more easily conceive and realize interesting IoT solutions. A challenge …