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 …

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 …

There are often three groups of experts involved in the design and implementation of
business processes in a service oriented enterprise; business analysts, solution architects …

With the proliferation of the Internet and the wide acceptance of e-commerce, an increasing
number of distributed and heterogeneous Web services are being offered. These Web …

Web services are proposed as a way to enable loosely-coupled integration of business
processes of different stakeholders. This requires effective development mechanisms that …

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

Web services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributed computing and
electronic business. This has raised the opportunity for service providers and application …

Web services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributed computing and
electronic business. This has raised the opportunity for service providers and application …

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