Over the last few years several process-based web service composition languages have
erged, such as BPEL4WS and BPML. These languages define the composition on the basis …

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 …

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 …

Process-oriented composition languages such as BPEL allow Web Services to be
composed into more sophisticated services using a workflow process. However, such …

Composition of services has received much interest to support business-to-business and
enterprise applications integration. The business world has developed a number of XML …

Web services have become a universal technology for integration of distributed and
heterogeneous applications over the Internet. Many recent proposals such as the Business …

With web services emerging as a promising technology for supporting open and dynamic
business processes, it is witnessed that standards for business process specification in the …

Novel trends in Web services technology challenge the assumptions made by current
standards for process-based service composition. Most RESTful Web service APIs, which do …

Web services enable application-to-application interactions over networks. They have
functional, behavioral, non-functional, and semantic characteristics. Web service …

The composition of elementary web services to larger-scale services has become an
important means to enhance e-business collaborations. If such composite web services can …