Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Issue on Utility and Cloud Computing Science and Technology

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-102
Author(s):  
Irena Bojanova ◽  
Ching-Hsien Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Computing Science

THE LANDSCAPE OF INCONSISTENCY: A PERSPECTIVE

2011 ◽  
Vol 05 (03) ◽  
pp. 235-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
DU ZHANG ◽  
ÉRIC GRÉGOIRE
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Social Computing ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Computing Systems ◽  
Semantic Computing

The focus of this introduction to this special issue is to draw a picture as comprehensive as possible about various dimensions of inconsistency. In particular, we consider: (1) levels of knowledge at which inconsistency occurs; (2) categories and morphologies of inconsistency; (3) causes of inconsistency; (4) circumstances of inconsistency; (5) persistency of inconsistency; (6) consequences of inconsistency; (7) metrics for inconsistency; (8) theories for handling inconsistency; (9) dependencies among occurrences of inconsistency; and (10) problem domains where inconsistency has been studied. The take-home message is that inconsistency is ubiquitous and handling inconsistency is consequential in our endeavors. How to manage and reason in the presence of inconsistency presents a very important issue in semantic computing, cloud computing, social computing, and many other data-rich or knowledge-rich computing systems.

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