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 …

Abstract Initial developments in Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) led to the development
of Web Services using the SOAP protocol and an extensive set of tools and methods for …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Abstract Service-oriented computing (SOC) represents a paradigm for building distributed
computing applications over the Internet. In the past decade, Web services composition has …

Web services are a consolidated reality of the modern Web with tremendous, increasing
impact on everyday computing tasks. They turned the Web into the largest, most accepted …

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 …

Web services have become an emerging and promising technology to design and build
complex business applications out of atomic web-based software components. To enforce …

Recently, there is a trend on developing mobile applications based on service-oriented
architecture in numerous application domains, such as telematics and smart home. Although …