Existing research work towards the composition of complex federated services has assumed
that service requests and deliveries flow through a particular service path or tree. Here, we …

The concept of eServices originated in the early 2000s in the field of business and
commerce. However, in recent years, eServices are being applied in many domains …

Looking at the recent history of information systems, two complementary trends seem to
emerge. On the one side, systems become more modular. The shift is from tight integration …

The dynamic composition of existing services into new services is at the core of service-
oriented computing. The objective of FRESCO (Foundational Research on Service …

The Grid is rapidly emerging as the dominant paradigm for wide area distributed application
systems. As a result, there is a need for modeling and analyzing the characteristics and …

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 …

Service portals are systems which expose a bundle of Web services to the user, allowing the
specification and subsequent execution of complex tasks defined over these individual …

Emerging Web services technologies provide an open infrastructure for automated business
interaction, thereby creating new opportunities for business actors to collaborate within a …

We present the design, prototype implementation and operation of the Accord Composition
Engine (ACE) that enables the dynamic and autonomic composition of grid services. ACE …

Abstract Service composition is the act of taking several component products or services,
and bundling them together to meet the needs of a given customer. In the future, service …