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Service discovery of state-dependent services has to take workflow aspects into account. To increase the usability of a query result, the results should be ordered with regard to their relevance, that is, the similarity of the query and the result list entry. Although there exist service discovery solutions considering workflow aspects, there is no support of ordering the result list. However, ...

Service discovery of state dependent services has to take workflow aspects into account. To increase the usability of a service discovery, the result list of services should be ordered with regard to the relevance of the services. Means of ordering a list of workflows due to their similarity with regard to a query are missing. In this paper different similarity measures are presented and evalua...

BACKGROUND Service readiness of health facilities is an integral part of providing comprehensive quality healthcare to the community. Comprehensive assessment of general and service-specific (i.e. child immunization) readiness will help to identify the bottlenecks in healthcare service delivery and gaps in equitable service provision. Assessing healthcare facilities readiness also helps in opti...

PDBselect (http://bioinfo.tg.fh-giessen.de/pdbselect/) is a list of representative protein chains with low mutual sequence identity selected from the protein data bank (PDB) to enable unbiased statistics. The list increased from 155 chains in 1992 to more than 4500 chains in 2009. PDBfilter-select is an online service to generate user-defined selections.

We present an online service with real-time monitoring of Wikipedia pages for companies and detects sentiment with respect to the edits, the companies and editors. It monitors the IRC stream, detects company-related articles using a small hand-built list and performs sentiment analysis using a sentiment-annotated word list. The system generates a report that can be emailed to users.

This paper presents a fast channel switching method in Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) system for IPTV service. Fast channel switching is one of the important features of successful IPTV systems. Users surely prefer IPTV systems with small channel switching time rather than a longer one. Thus a channel switching control module and a channel/permission list in EPON system’s ONU or OLT is...

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In this paper we present a distributed, in-memory, message passing implementation of a dynamic ordered dictionary structure. The structure is based on a distributed fine-grain implementation of a skip list that can scale across a cluster of multicore machines. We present a service-oriented approach to the design of distributed data structures in MPI where the skip list elements are active proce...