The Web has undergone a tremendous change from a primarily publication platform towards
a participatory and “programmable” platform, where a large number of heterogeneous Web …

In the last years, Web Service composition has undoubtedly become the most promising
way to integrate business-to-business applications. However, the industry and the academia …

Recently, mashups, ie, composite web applications, have gained momentum in both the
consumer and enterprise sector. However, they lack a structured development process …

This paper addresses automatic service composition (ASC) as a means to create new value-
added services dynamically and automatically from existing services in service-oriented …

Service computing promotes a large number of web-delivered services, including web
services, APIs and data feeds. Composing data, functionalities and even UI from these web …

The recent emergence of mashup tools has refueled research on end-user development, ie,
on enabling end-users without programming skills to compose their own applications. Yet …

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 …

In recent years, models, composition paradigms, and tools for mashup development have
been proposed to support the integration of information sources, services and APIs available …

Web service composition lets developers create applications on top of service-oriented
computing's native description, discovery, and communication capabilities. Such …

The need for integration of all types of client and server applications that were not initially
designed to interoperate is gaining popularity. One of the reasons for this popularity is the …