Service oriented architecture (SOA) has emerged as a popular software paradigm for integrating distributed applications. Services are generally regarded as interoperable building blocks for constructing, integrating, and merging applications. However, existing SOA based solutions often focus on solving technical integration problems while neglecting business-level capabilities which are most im...

In the information retrieval context, resource collections are frequently classified using thesauri. However, the limited semantics provided by thesauri restricts the collection search and browsing capabilities. This work focuses on improving these capabilities by transforming a set of resources indexed according to a thesaurus into a semantically tagged collection. The core mechanism for build...

Many time series are generated by a set of entities that interact with one another over time. This paper introduces a broad, flexible framework to learn from multiple inter-dependent time series generated by such entities. Our framework explicitly models the entities and their interactions through time. It achieves this by building on the capabilities of Recurrent Neural Networks, while also of...

We suggest there is a need for a fresh perspective on the design and development of workflow systems and argue for a building blocks approach. We outline a description of this approach and define the properties of software building blocks. We discuss RADICAL-Cybertools as one implementation of the building blocks concept, showing how they have been designed and developed in accordance with this...

To carry out contextualized research on theory of dynamic capabilities under the perspective of the knowledge-based, and explore the mechanism of international enterprises to enhance innovation performance in the Chinese context, also to build a theoretical model between “the Chinese context-dynamic capabilities-innovation performance”, this study makes an attempt to theoretical research and ma...

We present a vision for the next-generation of visual analytics services. We argue that these services should provide three related capabilities: (1) support visual and interactive data exploration as they do today, but also (2) suggest relevant data to enrich visualizations, and (3) facilitate the integration and cleaning of that data. Most importantly, they should provide all these capabiliti...

SCA (Service Component Architecture) is a collaborative effort by the leading vendors in the enterprise software space to define an architecture for building applications and systems using a ServiceOriented Architecture. SCA allows developers to define components that implement business logic, which offer their capabilities through services and consume functions offered by other components thro...

We describe our work in building support for streaming data services for Geographical Information System Grid services. We examine how streaming approaches may be used to increase data service performance for transporting XML messages. Similarly, streaming versions of traditional static map services may be combined with general audio/video session management capabilities to build collaborative,...

Using case study analysis across three sectors in China (cement, electric vehicles and coal fired electricity generation) and theoretical insights from the innovation studies literature, this paper analyses the development of China’s technological capabilities in low carbon technologies and the ways in which public policies have contributed to developing these capabilities. It finds that China ...

Using case study analysis across three sectors in China (cement, electric vehicles and coal fired electricity generation) and theoretical insights from the innovation studies literature, this paper analyses the development of China’s technological capabilities in low carbon technologies and the ways in which public policies have contributed to developing these capabilities. It finds that China ...