We propose an extension of the Open API specification (OAS) for the semantic description of RESTful services. We suggest that API descriptions (eg. on Clouds) be semantically annotated by associating OAS entities to entities in an ontology. The new approach, referred to Semantic OAS (SOAS) eliminates ambiguities and produces descriptions of RESTful services that are understandable by both, huma...

With the evolution of an API library, its documentation also evolves. The evolution of API documentation is common knowledge for programmers and library developers, but not in a quantitative form. Without such quantitative knowledge, programmers may neglect important revisions of API documentation, and library developers may not effectively improve API documentation based on its revision histor...

A security API is an Application Program Interface that allows untrusted code to access sensitive resources in a secure way. Examples of security APIs include the interface between the tamper-resistant chip on a smartcard (trusted) and the card reader (untrusted), the interface between a cryptographic Hardware Security Module, or HSM (trusted) and the client machine (untrusted), and the Google ...

In this thesis we study two interesting aspects of the problem of Entity Resolution (ER). The goal of ER is to identify and merge records that refer to the same underlying entity. The recent rise in adoption of social networks (Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and others) introduces new issues and twists to the traditional ER problem: crowdsourcing and limited information. We first study a hybrid hu...

There are many reports on the appearance of a typical isoenzyme of alkaline phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.1; API)2 in serum of patients suffering from biliary obstruction. According to the characteristics observed in various studies, this API has variouslybeen termed “high molecular weight” (1), “origin,” “stationary,” “particulate” (2), “bile,” “cholestatic,” “pathological biliary” (3, 4), and “koinoz...

API-1 (pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidines) is a novel small-molecule inhibitor of Akt, which acts by binding to Akt and preventing its membrane translocation and has promising preclinical antitumor activity. In this study, we reveal a novel function of API-1 in regulation of cellular FLICE-inhibitory protein (c-FLIP) levels and TRAIL-induced apoptosis, independent of Akt inhibition. API-1 effectively ind...

Malignant mesothelioma (MM) is a tumor arising from mesothelium. MM patients' survival is poor. The polyphenol 4',5,7,-trihydroxyflavone Apigenin (API) is a "multifunctional drug". Several studies have demonstrated API anti-tumoral effects. However, little is known on the in vitro and in vivo anti-tumoral effects of API in MM. Thus, we analyzed the in vitro effects of API on cell proliferation,...