With the proliferation of Web services over the Internet and due to the increasing complexity
of users' needs, Web service composition has emerged as a powerful method of software …

The creation of value-added services by automatic composition of existing ones is gaining a
significant momentum as the potential silver bullet in service-oriented architecture. However …

Abstract Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a well known paradigm for development of
flexible and loose coupled software applications using services that are available in a …

A key feature with service-oriented-architecture is to allow flexible composition of services
into a business process. Although previous works related to service composition have paved …

Since most of studies on the automated composition of web services do not consider the
functional semantics of services, unsatisfied results may be generated against users' …

Service composition is the process of constructing new services by combining several
existing ones. It considered as one of the complex challenges in distributed and dynamic …

Due to the web services' heterogeneous nature, which stems from the definition of several
XML-based standards to overcome platform and language dependence, web services have …

Abstract Service composition mechanisms successfully enable'programming in the
large'within business oriented computing systems. Here, the composability of single …

Developing service based complex applications (service composition) has become an
important area of research in SOA. In spite of this, there has been little effort to understand …

An important challenge in software technology is the construction of infrastructures for the
integration of functionality provided by multiple organizations. A promising approach is the …