Footprint (FP) is the main indicator for quantitatively analyzing the surface urban heat island (SUHI) effect. Existing SUHI FP calculation methods ignore the interference caused by city shape and are mostly based on the isotropic expansion assumption, resulting in too rough FP. Therefore, this...

For a multi-resource service request task (MRSRTask) in manufacturing grid (MGrid) system, in addition to the search for all qualified resource services according to each subtask, the system selects one candidate resource service for each subtask. Then the system generates a new composite...

With the increasingly fierce market competition and rapid development of information technology, as a new organisation, virtual enterprise (VE) emerges from the business process of single enterprise. Service composition, which can realise the added value of service, is the core to implement a...