Clients or users of products, processes or services are being identified as the potential sources of innovation in research conducted in various sectors (e.g. IT, aviation, and laboratory equipment). At present there is concern about the construction client’s potential to be an innovation promoter within the construction industry. Several researchers have recommended proactive client involvemen...

The Construct development environment is targeted at the construction of different types of hypermedia services. The primary goal of the environment is to ease the construction of component-based open hypermedia systems by providing development tools that assist system developers in the generation of the set of service components that make up a hypermedia system. This paper explains how the Con...

Recently, a growing number of Web Services have emerged at a fast rate. However, there are many situations where individual web services, alone, cannot satisfy user requirements. This has raised the need for service providers and application developers to develop value added services by combining existing web services into composite web services. Web services composition is now a very active re...

Language comprehension in humans is very robust. With apparent ease, language users can grasp the meaning of utterances made in very bad acoustic conditions or containing grammatical errors. A key mechanism in achieving this robustness is the ability of the listener to predict what the speaker is likely to say. According to recent work in psycholinguistics, these predictions are made by covertl...

This paper reports further progress into a computational implementation of a new formalism for construction grammar, known as Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG). We focus in particular on how hierarchy can be implemented. The paper analyses the requirements for a proper treatment of hierarchy in grammar and then proposes a particular solution based on a new operator, known as the J-operator. The ...

—Business fields characterized by collective activities are numerous and require well-adapted software-based services to improve the efficiency of business collaborations. The design of services supporting the activities in such domains is usually ad-hoc and relies on the know-how of various involved actors. Based on our experience of designing innovative services for Architecture, Engineering ...

This tutorial deals with the construction of datacentric Web applications, focusing on the modelling of processes and on the integration with Web services. The tutorial describes the standards, methods, and tools that are commonly used for building these applications.

This paper presents our results with monitoring data dependencies among concurrently executing, distributed processes that execute over Grid Services. The research has been conducted in the context of the DeltaGrid project, focusing on the development of a semantically-robust execution environment for the composition of Grid Services. Delta-Enabled Grid Services (DEGS) are a foundational aspect...

African woodlands form a major part of the tropical grassy biome and support the livelihoods of millions of rural and urban people. Charcoal production in particular is a major economic activity, but its impact on other ecosystem services is little studied. To address this, our study collected biophysical and social datasets, which were combined in ecological production functions, to assess eco...