infonet-economy

Multiple tasks related to documents, such as indexing, retrieving, annotation, or translation are based on linguistic, terminological and ontological knowledge existing in resources of different types represented using various formalisms. Building bridges between these resources and using them together is a complex task. Solving this problem relies on finding the right resources...

Service-oriented programming has dramatically changed the way software applications are developed. Auto- matic composition of services reduces human interaction on choosing the set of services that satisfy a specific request. Automatic composition has mainly been done in a centralised way with the composition specified at design time or in a decentralised manner through multi-agent...

In this paper, we discuss the remaining security risk of Wi-Fi AP spoofing with current AP joining approaches and how a new solution has been developed as part of the ULOOP project in order to be more user-friendly and secure. It was an important step for increased security because our evaluation shows that even computer aware users do not know or do not bother about this issue...

A key concern in the Internet of Things (IoT) has been the integration of mundane objects in the Internet. Although increasingly interconnected, the IoT ecosystem is largely industry-centered. This leads to the creation of limited and incompatible services disempowering users by hampering their participation. In this thesis, we address this issue by empowering users to create,...