Service Adaptability Analysis across Semantics and Behavior Levels Based on Model Transformation
Web service adaptability analysis is a prominent aspect of service adaptation. Current Petri net-based approaches focus on behavior-level service...
Prioritizing Consumer-Centric NFPs in Service Selection
Service Selection continues to be a challenge in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). In this paper, we propose a consumer-centric...
Personal eHealth Knowledge Spaces though Models, Agents and Semantics
In this paper, we present a web-based platform that generates a Personal eHealth Knowledge Space as an aggregation of...
Lightweight Semantic Prototyper for Conceptual Modeling
While much research work was devoted to conceptual model quality validation techniques, most of the existing tools in this...
SQTime: Time-Enhanced Social Search Querying
In this paper, we present SQTime, a system for social search queries that exploit temporal information available in social...
A Semiotic Approach to Conceptual Modelling
The work on Conceptual Modelling performed by our group at PUC-Rio is surveyed, covering four mutually dependent research topics....
Ontological Patterns, Anti-Patterns and Pattern Languages for Next-Generation Conceptual Modeling
This paper addresses the complexity of conceptual modeling in a scenario in which semantic interoperability requirements are increasingly present....
A Computer-Guided Approach to Website Schema.org Design
Schema.org offers to web developers the opportunity to enrich a website’s content with microdata and schema.org. For large websites,...
On Designing Archiving Policies for Evolving RDF Datasets on the Web
When dealing with dynamically evolving datasets, users are often interested in the state of affairs on previous versions of...
Efficient Reverse kNN Query Algorithm on Road Network Distances Using Partitioned Subgraphs
Reverse k-nearest neighbor (RkNN) queries in road network distances require long processing time in most conventional algorithms because these...
