Publications related to Web service

ECCE: Entity-centric Corpus Exploration Using Contextual Implicit Networks

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello, Andreas Oliver Spitz

In the Digital Age, the analysis and exploration of unstructured document collections is of central importance to members of investigative professions, whether they might be scholars, journalists, paralegals, or analysts. In many of their domains, entities ...

ACM Digital Press2022

OCUVIS: A Web-Based Visualizer for Simulated Daylight Performance

Marilyne Andersen, María Lovísa Ámundadóttir, Siobhan Francois Rockcastle

This paper introduces an interactive web-based visualizer for multi-metric daylight simulation results, named OCUVIS. It is able to display simulation-based results for a diverse range of ocular human-centric metrics such as non-visual health potential (nv ...

2018

Rack-Scale Memory Pooling for Datacenters

Stanko Novakovic

The rise of web-scale services has led to a staggering growth in user data on the Internet. To transform such a vast raw data into valuable information for the user and provide quality assurances, it is important to minimize access latency and enable in-me ...

EPFL2017

Using Linked Open Data to Bootstrap a Knowledge Base of Classical Texts

Matteo Romanello

We describe a domain-specific knowledge base aimed at supporting the extraction of bibliographic references in the domain of Classics. In particular, we deal with references to canonical works of the Greek and Latin literature by providing a model that rep ...

CEUR2017

Wikipedia Chemical Structure Explorer: substructure and similarity searching of molecules from Wikipedia

Luc Patiny, Michaël Giuseppe Zasso

Background: Wikipedia, the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia is an indispensable source of chemistry information. It contains among others also entries for over 15,000 chemicals including metabolites, drugs, agrochemicals and industrial chemica ...

Biomed Central Ltd2015

Patterns for Value-Added Services Illustrated with SEAM

Maude Laetitia Grossan, Alain Wegmann, Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska, Aarthi Gopal

The basic idea behind the provision of a service is to hide the service implementation details from the client in such a way that more value is provided to the client. Very often support services allow too much of their implementation details to be visible ...

2014

ChemCalc: a building block for tomorrow’s chemical infrastructure

Alain Borel, Luc Patiny

Web services, as an aspect of cloud computing, are becoming an important part of the general IT infrastructure, and scientific computing is no exception to this trend. We propose a simple approach to develop chemical web services, through which servers cou ...

2013

Modeling Value Creation and Capture in Service Systems

Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam, Vijay Viswanathan

In service-dominant (S-D) logicvalue is viewed as being co-created between companies, customers, and other actors within a service system. In order to understand how service systems maintain their viability and competitiveness, two fundamental questions sh ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2012

Quality-aware similarity assessment for entity matching in Web data

Karl Aberer, Zoltán Miklós, Surender Reddy Yerva

One of the key challenges to realize automated processing of the information on the Web, which is the central goal of the Semantic Web, is related to the entity matching problem. There are a number of tools that reliably recognize named entities, such as p ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Autonomic SLA-driven Provisioning for Cloud Applications

Karl Aberer, Nicolas Bonvin

Significant achievements have been made for automated allocation of cloud resources. However, the performance of applications may be poor in peak load periods, unless their cloud resources are dynamically adjusted. Moreover, although cloud resources dedica ...

2011

What have fruits to do with technology? The case of Orange, Blackberry and Apple

Karl Aberer, Zoltán Miklós, Surender Reddy Yerva

Twitter is a micro-blogging service on the Web, where people can enter short messages, which then become visible to other users of the service. While the topics of these messages varies, there are a lot of messages where the users express their opinions ab ...

ACM2011

From Web Data to Entities and Back

Zoltán Miklós, Michele Catasta, Nicolas Bonvin, Julien Gaugaz, Ekaterini Ioannou

We present the Entity Name System (ENS), an enabling infrastructure, which can host descriptions of named entities and provide unique identifiers, on large-scale. In this way, it opens new perspectives to realize entity-oriented, rather than keyword-orient ...

2010

Towards Collaborative Portable Web Spaces

Denis Gillet, Stéphane Sire, Evgeny Bogdanov

As two recent trends in Web development, Widgets and mashups, are converging, we claim that there is a growing need to define a Widget Space configuration language to allow building flexible personal learning environments that could be independent of a run ...

2009

Multimedia Terminal Architecture: An Inter-Operable Approach

Marco Mattavelli, Beilu Shao

This paper addresses the inter-operability problem of multimedia terminal in media content delivery over heterogeneous networks and devices. We design and implement a terminal which includes a content browser providing presentation, navigation and interact ...

IEEE Computer Society Press2008

Distributed RWA tools via Web Services

Sébastien Rumley, Christian Gaumier

Several computer tools addressing the routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) problem are available today within the research community. However, these tools have low flexibility and are difficult to use for remote or casual users. This paper shows how to ...

IEEE2008

Pseudo Random Numbers Generators available as Web Services

Sébastien Rumley

Series of Pseudo Random Numbers are often used as simulation input, and they strongly Influence the results. Thus, their usage and the usage of their generator need to be taken care of very well. Qualified generators are available on the web as source code ...

Soc Computer Simulation Int, Po Box 17900, San Diego, Ca 92177 Usa2008

An Architecture for TV Content Distributed Search and Retrieval Using the MPEG Query Format (MPQF)

Frédéric Dufaux

Traditional broadcasting of TV contents begins to coexist with new models of user aware content delivery. The definition of interoperable interfaces for precise content search and retrieval between the different involved parties is a requirement for the de ...

2008

Dynamic Control of a Robotic Swarm using a Service-Oriented Architecture

Vlad Trifa, Christopher Cianci

The development, deployment, and control of groups of robots is a tedious process even for experienced roboticists. Particularly in heterogeneous systems a high granularity of control and visibility is difficult to achieve. The lack of standardized interfa ...

2008

Temporal streams in commercial server applications

Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi, Michael Ferdman

Commercial server applications remain memory bound on modern multiprocessor systems because of their large data footprints, frequent sharing, complex non-strided access patterns, and long chains of dependant misses. To improve memory system performance des ...

2008

Specifying Services for ITIL Service Management

Gil Regev, François Maréchal, Alain Wegmann

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a collection of best practices for the management of IT services. ITIL helps organizations to become aware of the business value their IT services provide to internal and external stakeholders. Un ...

2008