Despite the popularity of web services, creating them manually is an intricate task. Composite web services are defined using the evolving standard for BPEL (Business Process Execution Logic). It is explained how CRESS (Chisel Representation Employing Systematic Specification) has been extended to meet the challenge of graphically and formally describing web services. Sample CRESS descriptions ...

The CHISEL notation was developed by Bellcore as an informal graphical notation for describing telecomms services and features. CRESS (CHISEL Representation Employing Systematic Specification) is an enhanced version of CHISEL with tightly defined rules for the syntax and static semantics of diagrams. More importantly, CRESS has formal denotations given by SDL (Specification and Description Lang...

Jonathan B. Shurin*, Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom, Kurt Anderson, Carol A. Blanchette, Bernardo Broitman, Scott D. Cooper and Benjamin S. Halpern National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara, 735 State St., Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara, S...

In a previous paper the CSCR domain was defined. Here this is taken to the next stage where the design of a particular Collaborative Research Environment to support Students and Supervisors ( CRESS) is considered. Following the CSCR structure this paper deals with an analysis of 13 collaborative working environments to determine a preliminary design for CRESS in order to discover the most appro...

Composite web services are defined using the industry-standard language BPEL (Business Process Execution Logic). There is a strong need for graphical and automated support for this task. It is explained how CRESS (Chisel Representation Employing Systematic Specification) has been extended to meet this challenge. CRESS supports straightforward graphical descriptions of composite web services. Sa...

Although conceived for web services, it is shown how BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) can be used to orchestrate a collection of grid services. This is achieved using the technique of CRESS (Communication Representation Employing Systematic Specification) to describe the composition of grid services. CRESS descriptions are automatically translated into LOTOS (Language Of Temporal Orde...

A sever thunderstorm is composed of strong convective clouds. In order to perform a simulation of this type of storms, a very fine-grid system is necessary to resolve individual convective clouds within a large domain. Since convective clouds are highly complicated systems of the cloud dynamics and microphysics, it is required to formulate detailed cloud physical processes as well as the fluid ...

In order to investigate the accumulation and bio-absorption of lead and cadmium in radish and cress, the present study has been conducted in a completely randomized design in three replicates in a hydroponic growing medium. The first factor includes the plant type at two levels (radish and cress), and the second factor is consisted of lead (Pb) (first experiment) at two levels (50 and 100 mg/L)...

The powder and alcoholic extract of dried seeds of garden cress were investigated for their effect on metabolic activity of CYP2D6 and CYP3A4 enzymes. In vitro and clinical studies were conducted on human liver microsomes and healthy human subjects, respectively. Dextromethorphan was used as a common marker for measuring metabolic activity of CYP2D6 and CYP3A4 enzymes. In in vitro studies, micr...