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The quality of Cloud services is a key determinant of the overall service level a provider offers to its customers. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are crucial for Cloud customers to ensure that promised levels of services are met, and an important sales instrument and a differentiating factor for providers. Cloud providers offer services at different levels of abstraction, from infrastructure to...
Internet of Things is projected to connect uniquely identifiable devices over the network to build an interactive system with high velocity and volume of data placing forth a challenge of interoperability between such devices. RDF provides a common standard for communication among devices of network and supports powerful data inference. The paper addresses the challenge of handling huge sensor data...
Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP) has known an important development during the last decade. Nowadays, several ANLP tools are already developed such as morphological analyzers. These analyzers are often used in more advanced applications such as syntactic parsers, search engines, machine translation systems, etc. However, the choice of a morphological analyzer to use, among others, can be...
The extensible Mark up Language (XML) is a meta language that is widely used to provide a non-proprietary universal format for sharing hierarchical data among different software systems and application domains. Moreover, many organizations and content providers have been publishing and sharing their information through XML and its standard schemas. In this context, it is extremely important when designing...
A key promise of process languages based on open standards, such as the Web Services Business Process Execution Language, is the avoidance of vendor lock-in through the portability of process definitions among runtime environments. Despite the fact that today, various runtimes claim to support this language, every runtime implements a different subset, thus hampering portability and locking in their...
DIES system for designing and improving enterprise business scenarios is proposed. Such scenarios are executed and monitored in an SOA environment. Many metrics are gathered, and strong/weak aspects are pointed out. DIES allows the improvement of a scenario's performance, quality, and usability. Due to technology-agnostic API the system supports any extensible business scenario technology, and it...
Standardization is an important aspect of building interoperable service-oriented e-Business solutions. XML-based standards have become increasingly popular to address some of the interoperability challenges, both in commercial and governmental organizations. However, the number of available XML-based standards has created a situation, where users have difficulties in choosing the most suitable standard,...
Exchanging structured business documents is inevitable for successful collaboration in electronic commerce. A prerequisite, for fostering the interoperability between business partners utilizing different business document standards, is a mapping between different standards. However, the effort involved in creating those mappings is hard to estimate. For example, the complexity of standardized formats...
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