Semantic web services (SWS) promise to take service oriented computing to a new level by allowing to semi-automate timeconsuming programming tasks. At the core of SWS are solutions to the problem of SWS matchmaking, i.e., the problem of comparing semantic goal descriptions with semantic offer descriptions to determine services able to fulfill a given request. Approaches to this problem have so ...

Homologous recombination (HR) repairs cytotoxic DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) with high fidelity. Deficiencies in HR result in genome instability. A key early step in HR is the search for and invasion of a homologous DNA template by a single-stranded RAD-51 nucleoprotein filament. The Shu complex, composed of a SWIM domain-containing protein and its interacting RAD51 paralogs, promotes HR by ...

Sleep problems are commonly reported in Rett syndrome (RTT); however the electroencephalographic (EEG) biomarkers underlying sleep dysfunction are poorly understood. The aim of this study was to analyze the temporal evolution of quantitative EEG (qEEG) biomarkers in overnight EEGs recorded from girls (2-9 yrs. old) diagnosed with RTT using a non-traditional automated protocol. In this study, EE...

Semantic Web Services (SWS) aim at the automated discovery, selection and orchestration of Web services on the basis of comprehensive, machine-interpretable semantic descriptions. However, heterogeneities between distinct SWS representations pose strong limitations w.r.t. interoperability and reusability. Hence, semantic-level mediation, i.e. mediation between concurrent semantic representation...

Context-awareness is highly desired, particularly in highly dynamic mobile environments. Semantic Web Services (SWS) address context-adaptation by enabling the automatic discovery of distributed Web services based on comprehensive semantic capability descriptions. Even though the appropriateness of resources in mobile settings is strongly dependent on the current situation, SWS technology does ...

This paper describes a conceptual model investigating the impact of organizational social web site (SWS) usage on individual performance. Previous research on SWS usage offers rather lean measures, which do not account for the context (i.e. the task the system is used for). We address this research gap by constructing a very rich usage measure and introducing it in the context of organizational...