Abstract Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) describes a specific paradigm of computing that
utilizes Web services as reusable components in order to develop new software …

The evolution of Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) provides more efficient software
development methods for building and engineering new value-added service-based …

Service-oriented computing (SOC) is an interdisciplinary paradigm that revolutionizes the
very fabric of distributed software development applications that adopt service-oriented …

Web service composition allows developers to create applications by capitalizing on the
service-oriented architecture paradigm. Such applications are rapidly deployable and offer …

Despite the widespread adoption of web services, several obstacles still hinder their smooth
automatic composition. First, techniques that exploit semantic information during web …

The discovery and integration of services in a composition are challenging tasks due to the
lack of semantic in the Web services' description. WSMO community is working on …

Purpose Web services play vital role in the development of emerging technologies such as
Cloud computing and Internet of Things. Although, there is a close relationship among the …

Revolutionary development of service oriented architecture (SOA) fosters the integration of
software components from different distributed platforms and facilitates modelling of web …

Pervasive computing environments are populated with networked services, ie, autonomous
software entities, providing a number of functionalities. One of the most challenging …

In service oriented scenarios, applications are created by composing atomic services and
exposing the resulting added value logic as a service. When several alternative service …