Interorganizational cooperation is more and more organized by the paradigm of services. The service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides a general framework for service interaction. It describes three roles, service provider, ...

This report introduces a new model for event-driven temporal sequence processing: Generalized Hidden Semi-Markov Models (GHSMMs). GHSMMs are an extension of hidden Markov models to continuous time that builds on turning ...

Gurevich’s sequential Abstract State Machines (ASMs) are taken as a basis for the construction of distributed ASMs as sets of sequential ASMs. A theorem on the expressive power of distributed ASM is proven in analogy to ...

Moving object detection is a fundamental task for a variety of traffic applications. In this paper the Daubechies and biorthogonal wavelet families are exploited for extracting the relevant movement information in moving ...

The Semantic Web as an evolution of the World Wide Web aims to create a universal medium for the exchange of semantically described data. The idea of representing this information by means of directed labelled graphs, ...

The internet today has grown to be more than just being a basis for exchanging information. It steadily becomes a platform for processing business processes. Many companies distribute their service with the help of web ...