Services based on the representational state transfer (REST) paradigm, a lightweight
implementation of a service-oriented architecture, have found even greater success than …

Current Web service technology is evolving towards a simpler approach to define Web
service APIs that challenges the assumptions made by existing languages for Web service …

The paper presents a service composition language called VINCA, which differs from many
existing ones in its emphasis on enabling business users to visually “program” from …

Research on semantic Web services (SWS) has been devoted to reduce the extensive
manual eort required for manipulating Web services by enhancing them with semantic …

Enabling the diffusion of lightweight service composition approaches among end users
necessitates the appropriate understanding and establishment of the correct user …

Web Services composition has received much interest from both the academic researchers
and industry to support cross-enterprise application integration. Promising research projects …

In this dissertation, we present a novel approach for the automatic composition of Web
services on the envisioned Semantic Web. Automatic service composition requires dealing …

The web-based service composition, eg mashup, is becoming a popular style to reuse web
services. From the perspective of reuse, existing work has limitations on qualifying whether …

Service oriented architectures (SOAs) based on Web Services have attracted a great interest
and IT investments during the last years, principally in the context of business-to-business …

Web service composition (WSC) offers a range of solutions for rapid creation of complex
applications in advanced service-oriented systems by facilitating the composition of already …