Web services provide seamless connections from one software application to another over private intranets and the Internet. The major communication protocol used is SOAP being mainly XML over HTTP. The exchanged data follow precise format rules in the form of XML Document Type Definitions or more recently the proposed XML Schemas. Web service testing considers functionality and load aspects to ...

Papers published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions are under open-access review for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Abstract Web services support the integration and interoperability of Web-based applications and enable machine-to-machine interaction. The concepts of web services and open distributed architecture were applied to the development of T-DSS, the pro...

The Semantic Web and Web Services provide many opportunities in various applications such as product search and comparison in electronic commerce. We implemented an intelligent meta-search and comparison system for products through multiple attributes by using ontology mapping and Web Services. Under the assumption that each shopping mall offers product ontology and product search service with ...

An ontology is a conceptual representation of a domain resulted from a consensus within a community. One of its main applications is the integration of heterogeneous information sources available in the Web, by means of the semantic annotation of web documents. This is the cornerstone of the emerging Semantic Web. However, nowadays most of the information in the Web consists of text documents w...