A metasearch engine supports unified access to multiple component search engines. To build a very large-scale metasearch engine that can access up to hundreds of thousands of component search engines, one major challenge is to incorporate large numbers of autonomous search engines in a highly effective manner. To solve this problem, we propose automatic search engine discovery, automatic search...

To date, research on web-service discovery has followed the traditional component-discovery methodology and has examined signature matching, specification matching and information retrieval approaches, based on the interface description and documentation captured in WSDL. WSDL specifications, however, can be information poor, with standard data types, unintuitive identifiers for data, messages ...

Service discovery in large scale, open distributed systems is difficult because of the need to filter out services suitable to the task at hand from a potentially huge pool of possibilities. Semantic descriptions have been advocated as the key to expressive service discovery, but the most commonly used service descriptions and registry protocols do not support such descriptions in a general man...

(1.1) The break through in deformation theory of (two-dimensional) quotient singularities Y was Kollár/Shepherd-Barron’s discovery of the one-to-one correspondence between so-called P-resolutions, on the one hand, and components of the versal base space, on the other hand (cf. [KS], Theorem (3.9)). It generalizes the fact that all deformations admitting a simultaneous (RDP-) resolution form one...

We exemplify in this paper, how a discovery system is applied to the analysis of simulation experiments in practical political planning, and show what kind of new knowledge can be discovered in an application area that differs from others by the high amount of knowledge that the analyst holds already about the process that generates the data. Subgoals like "low classification accuracy", "high h...

The recent human genome initiatives have led to the discovery of a multitude of genes that are potentially associated with various pathologic conditions and, thus, have opened new horizons in drug discovery. Simultaneously, annotated chemical libraries have emerged as information-rich databases to integrate biological and chemical data. They can be useful for the discovery of new pharmaceutical...

Service discovery is a very important component of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). This paper presents two alternative approaches to customise the query results of private service registry such as Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI). The customisation is performed based on some pre-defined and/or real-time changing parameters. This work identifies the requirements, des...