One of the principles of managing structured knowledge of an application domain is to exploit the notion of an ontology. Generalization of knowledge entities using formal semantic metadata enables classification and structuring of knowledge for better metadata management. Classification serves...

The discovery of contextually relevant web services is crucial to business organisations. Pragmatics (in terms of communication acts) and semiotics (the understanding of signs), intersect at an important point in relation to textual entities. The intersection of pragmatics and semiotics provides...