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 …

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

The new paradigm for distributed computing over the Internet is that of Web services (WSs).
One of the key ideas of this new paradigm is the ability to create value-added Service-Based …

In this chapter, we introduce the motivation behind Web service composition technologies–
going from an atomic to a composite service. In doing so, we discuss the two main …

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

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 are modular, self-describing, self-contained and loosely coupled applications
that can be published, located, and invoked across the web. With the increasing number of …

Service composition is a very complex and challenging task, especially when it has to
consider not only the services properties and their dependencies but also users constraints …

Dynamic composition of web services is a promising approach and at the same time a
challenging research area for the dissemination of service-oriented applications. It is widely …