Consumers evaluate and choose cloud-based services based on the Service Level Agreements (SLA). These agreements list service terms metrics to be agreed upon by providers customers. Current cloud SLAs are text documents that require significant manual effort parse determine if meet SLAs. Moreover, due lack of standardization, differ in way they define metrics, making it more difficult compare d...

Virtually all areas of human endeavor involve workflows that is, coordinated execution of multiple tasks. In practice, this requires the assembly of complex workflows from semantically heterogeneous components. In this paper, we develop ontology-extended workflow components and semantically consistent methods for assembling such components into complex ontology-extended component-based workflow...

This position paper on expert finding presents a conceptual framework for the reuse and interlinking of existing, well-established vocabularies in the Semantic Web. Such a framework can be used to connect people with people, based on joint or complementing interests (e.g. the need to develop specific new or existing skills for upcoming projects). Driven by a requirement to find experts using th...

Data portability has become an important requirement on the Social Web. This paper describes how data and social network portability can be achieved by building upon existing Semantic Web developments such as SIOC and FOAF. The SIOC project provides a common format for expressing user-generated content in a machine-readable form and tools for import/export of this information, while the FOAF vo...

this study was a contrastive analysis of the evolution of english and persian advertising slogans to investigate their similarities/differences in using rhetorical figures, and the evolution in the use of these figures in the slogans of each language. thus, 800 persian and english slogans from the last four decades were collected. lapsanka's framework (2006) including different aspects with som...