Mobile music selection is becoming an emerging market. So far only little work has been spent in selection of semantically enriched music streams on tiny mobile devices. This paper discusses how ontology-based preferences can be used for the selection of mobile music and presents a service discovery toolbox which is responsible for service matchmaking and preference relaxation. On the basis of ...

The next generation of Internet applications is emerging: Web services. In this work, we present novel techniques for a flexible and reliable execution and deployment of Web services which can be integrated into current service platforms. Dynamic service selection allows selecting Web service instances during runtime by means of semantic classifications. The selection can be influenced by speci...

In this article we investigate the use of time distributions in retrieval tasks. Specifically, we introduce a novel term selection method, namely Term Occurrence Uniformity (TOU), based on the hypothesis that terms which occur uniformly in time are more valuable than others. Our empirical evaluation so far has neither proved nor disproved this hypothesis. However, results are promising and sugg...

Cloud brokers have been recently introduced as an additional computational layer to facilitate cloud selection and service management tasks for cloud consumers. However, existing brokerage schemes on cloud service selection typically assume that brokers are completely trusted, and do not provide any guarantee over the correctness of the service recommendations. It is then possible for a comprom...

Many information systems developers face high cost in adopting service oriented architectures because of the high cost of locating appropriate services to customise and integrate into their system. This paper aims at reducing this cost by automating much of the composition and service selection effort. It illustrates the use of a Peer-Peer multi agent system (MAS) to facilitate service selectio...

Many information system developers face high cost in adopting service-oriented architectures because of the high cost of locating appropriate services to customise and integrate into their system. This chapter aims at reducing this cost by automating much of the composition and service selection effort. It illustrates the use of a peer-to-peer multi-agent system (MAS) to facilitate service sele...