Semantic Web Services are a research effort to automate the usage of Web services, a necessary component for the Semantic Web. Traditionally, Web service discovery depends on detailed formal semantic descriptions of available services. Since a complete detailed service description is not always feasible, the client software cannot select the best service offer for a given user goal only by usin...

Propelled by the technologies that VMware and Intel have pioneered, virtualization has rapidly gained market acceptance. Indeed, VMware virtual infrastructure software has some 4 million users and more than 20,000 corporate customers, many of which have been built on Intel-based systems. One of those corporate customers is Solvay Pharmaceuticals, a chemical and pharmaceutical group with 29,000 ...