Abstract Services Oriented Architecture provides Web Services (WSs) as reusable software
components that can be applied to create more complicate composite services for users …

With the advent of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), services can be registered, invoked,
and combined by their identical Quality of Services (QoS) attributes to create a new value …

Web service composition concerns the building of new value added services by integrating
the sets of existing web services. Due to the seamless proliferation of web services, it …

As web service has become a popular way for engineering software on the Internet, quality
of service (QoS) which describes non-functional characteristics of web services is often …

Recently, with the rapid increase in the number of web services, QoS-aware Web Service
Composition (QWSC) has become a popular topic in both industry and academia. Meta …

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 …

The rapid development of service computing environments has led to an increase in the
number of functionally equivalent services that differ according to their QoS (Quality of …

Web Services are the most famous implementation of service-oriented architectures that has
brought some challenging research issues. One of these is the composition, ie, the …

The run-time binding of web services has been recently put forward in order to support rapid
and dynamic web service compositions. With the growing number of alternative web …

Quality-of-service (QoS)-aware service composition aims to aggregate multiple existing
services to meet users' complex functional and nonfunctional requirements that cannot be …