Web services technologies are becoming a de facto standard to integrate distributed
applications and systems using XML-based standards. Developing applications that support …

Although XML (Extensible Markup Language) Web services [Cer02] can be used for
providing services to end users, the true power of Web Service technologies is leveraged …

With the explosive growth of the Internet, businesses of all sizes aim on applying e-business
solutions to their IT infrastructures, migrating their legacy business processes into Web …

The Web services architecture defines separate specifications for the composition and the
coordination of Web services. BPEL is a language for creating service compositions in the …

The emerging paradigm of electronic services promises to bring to distributed computation
and services the flexibility that the web has brought to the sharing of documents. An …

With the explosive growth of the Internet, businesses of all sizes aim on applying
networkwide solutions to their IT infrastructures, migrating their legacy business processes …

Web services have become a main thrust of the IT industry and there has been considerable
development in this area. There are two almost universally accepted standards: SOAP …

This paper describes a knowledge-based Web Service composition system, called SWIM,
which is based on the Service Domain model. Service Domains are communities of related …

Web services exchange XML documents with structured payloads. The processing
semantics of an execution endpoint may be influenced by additional information that is …

The development of Web Service compositions has not yet been automated. Web Service-
based process definitions can be created automatically using Web Service compositions …