Browsing by Subject "Information services"

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    • Conference Object  

      An ActOn-based semantic information service for EGEE 

      Xing, Wei; Corcho, O.; Goble, C.; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2007)
      We describe an information service that aggregates metadata available in hundreds of information sources of the EGEE Grid infrastructure. It uses an ontology-based information integration architecture (ActOn), which is ...
    • Article  

      An ActOn-based semantic information service for Grids 

      Xing, Wei; Corcho, O.; Goble, C.; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2010)
      We describe a semantic information service that aggregates metadata from a large number of information sources of a large-scale Grid infrastructure. It uses an ontology-based information integration architecture (ActOn) ...
    • Doctoral Thesis  Open Access

      Acton: managing dynamic information in large-scale distributed systems 

      Xing, Wei (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2016-01)
      Τα Συστήματα Ευρείας Κλίμακας όπως τα Υπολογιστικά Πλέγματα (Grids) και τα Συστήματα Ομοτίμων (P2P Systems) αποτελούνται από μεγάλο αριθμό από υπολογιστικούς, αποθηκευτικούς και δικτυακούς πόρους. Η παροχή ακριβών και ...
    • Book Chapter  

      Addressing device-based adaptation of services: A model driven web service oriented development approach 

      Achilleos, Achilleas P.; Yang, K.; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (IGI Global, 2014)
      The rapid growth of the mobile devices market and the increasing requirements of mobile users augment the need to develop Web Service clients that could be deployed and run on both mobile and desktop devices. Different ...
    • Conference Object  

      Anyplace: A Crowdsourced Indoor Information Service 

      Georgiou, K.; Constambeys, T.; Laoudias, Christos; Petrou, L.; Chatzimilioudis, Georgios; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      People do most of their activities, business, commerce, entertainment and socializing indoors. As all of these are increasingly aided by online services and indoor spaces are becoming bigger and more complex, there is a ...
    • Conference Object  

      Applying trust mechanisms in an agent-based P2P network of service providers and requestors 

      Tamani, E.; Evripidou, Paraskevas (2006)
      Building an agent-based network of service providers and requestors requires the effective management of the interactions among peers. These interactions, as in real life, require the mutual trust of the peers participating ...
    • Conference Object  

      Architecture for provision of context-aware web applications based on web services 

      Kapitsaki, Georgia M.; Kateros, D. A.; Venieris, Iakovos St (2008)
      Mobile and pervasive computing is gaining significant importance in the latest years. Context-awareness constitutes an essential aspect - almost a requirement - of mobile services in these environments. In this paper, we ...
    • Conference Object  

      Challenges in electronic roads in the information society: content-based image retrieval and IP DiffServ 

      Mylonas, Yiannos; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Panis, Stathis (IEEE, 2000)
      The objective of this study is to address some technological challenges that we faced within the Electronic Roads in the Information Society (ERIS) project. The main task of ERIS is to investigate an approach for dynamic ...
    • Article  

      Context-aware service engineering: A survey 

      Kapitsaki, Georgia M.; Prezerakos, G. N.; Tselikas, N. D.; Venieris, Iakovos St (2009)
      Context constitutes an essential part of service behaviour, especially when interaction with end-users is involved. As observed from the literature, context handling in service engineering has been during recent years a ...
    • Conference Object  

      A core grid ontology for the semantic grid 

      Wei, X.; Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Sakellariou, R. (2006)
      In this paper, we propose a Core Grid Ontology (CGO) that define s fundamental Grid-specific concepts, and the relationships between them. One of the key goals is to make this Core Grid Ontology general enough and easily ...
    • Conference Object  

      Enabling Cloud Application Portability 

      Antoniades, Demetris; Loulloudes, Nicholas; Foudoulis, Athanasios; Sophokleous, Chrystalla; Trihinas, Demetris; Pallis, George C.; Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Kornmayer, H. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      The Cloud Application Management Framework (CAMF) enables Cloud application developers to design, deploy and manage their applications through an intuitive blueprint design. In this paper we show how Cloud application ...
    • Article  

      Enterprise COllaboration and INteroperability (COIN) platform: Two case studies in the marine shipping domain 

      Achilleos, Achilleas P.; Kapitsaki, Georgia M.; Sielis, George A.; Sesana, M.; Gusmeroli, S.; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2012)
      Enterprise Collaboration and Enterprise Interoperability are two key aspects of networked enterprises, which proceed along parallel tracks with rare opportunities to convene, support and influence each other. To resolve ...
    • Article  

      A flexible personalization architecture for wireless Internet based on mobile agents 

      Samaras, George S.; Panayiotou, Christoforos (2002)
      The explosive growth of the Internet has fuelled the creation of new and exciting information services. Most of the current technology has been designed for desktop and larger computers with medium to high bandwidth and ...
    • Article  

      GridBench: A tool for the interactive performance exploration of Grid infrastructures 

      Tsouloupas, George; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2007)
      As Grids rapidly expand in size and complexity, the task of benchmarking and testing, interactive or unattended, quickly becomes unmanageable. In this article we describe the difficulties of testing/benchmarking resources ...
    • Conference Object  

      GridBench: A workbench for Grid benchmarking 

      Tsouloupas, George; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2005)
      In this article we present the GridBench, an extensible tool for benchmarking and testing Grid resources. We give an overview of the GridBench services and tools that provide easy invocation of benchmarks and management ...
    • Conference Object  

      Harvesting large-scale grids for software resources 

      Katsifodimos, A.; Pallis, George C.; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2009)
      Grid infrastructures are in operation around the world, federating an impressive collection of computational resources and a wide variety of application software. In this context, it is important to establish advanced ...
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      How valuable are shopbots? 

      Markopoulos, Panos M.; Kephart, J. O. (Association for Computing Machinery, 2002)
      The price information that shopbots provide to buyers is clearly valuable, as it enables them to make a better informed choice of product and vendor. We quantify the value of this price information to the buyer in terms ...
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      Identifying clusters with attribute homogeneity and similar connectivity in information networks 

      Papadopoulos, Antonios I.; Pallis, George C.; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2013)
      With the rapid emergence of the internet world, a lot of information networks become available every day. In many cases, these information networks contain objects connected by multiple links and described by different ...
    • Conference Object  

      Information quality evaluation for grid information services 

      Xing, Wei; Corcho, O.; Goble, C.; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (Springer Science and Business Media, LLC, 2007)
      The quality of the information provided by information services deployed in the EGEE production testbed differs from one system to another. Under the same conditions, the answers provided for the same query by different ...
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      Integrated platform for autonomic computing 

      Panayiotou, Christoforos; Fytros, E.; Tsetsos, V.; Samaras, George S.; Hadjiefthymiades, S.; Piquet, D. (2009)
      IPAC (Integrated Platform for Autonomic Computing) aims at delivering a middleware and service creation environment for developing embedded, intelligent, collaborative, context-aware services in mobile nodes. IPAC relies ...