The process of web service composition involves different partner web services that are
published over the internet. The Representational-State Transfer (REST) web services adopt …

A major benefit of service oriented architectures (SOAs) is the potential to automatically
compose Web services into business processes thereby promoting flexibility and reusability …

One of the assumptions all the standards for web service composition (eg BPEL) make is
that the business process is pre-defined. Obviously this assumption does not hold if …

Composing web services using current web service composition languages (such as BPEL)
requires a large amount of in-depth knowledge. This paper introduces a service creation …

We propose a technique for the automated synthesis of new composite web services. Given
a set of abstract bpel4ws descriptions of component services, and a composition …

In addition to publishing composite services as reusable services, compositions can also be
reused by applying them to orchestrate different component services. To do so, it is …

The current standards for web service composition, eg BPEL. neither cater for dynamic
service composition nor for dynamic business configuration. Our firm belief is that business …

Web Service composition is becoming the most promising way for business-to-business
systems integration. However, current mechanisms for service composition entail a trade-off …

The advent of Web services is enabling a move towards service–oriented computing. In
order for this new computing paradigm to scale, choreography standards that enable one to …

In many cases, it is not cost effective to automate business processes which affect a small
number of people and/or change frequently. We present a novel approach for enabling …