The creation of value-added services by automatic composition of existing ones is gaining
significant momentum as the potential silver bullet in service-oriented computing. A large …

With the advent of cloud computing and the rapid increase in the number of deployed
services, the competition between functionally-similar Web services is increasingly …

This article presents an approach that provides the necessary assistance to those who are in
charge of engineering communities of Web services. Current practices indicate that Web …

The ever-increasing number of mobile device users has also raised the users' expectation of
mobile services accordingly. This phenomenon has given pressures to the mobile service …

Web services are loosely-coupled business applications willing to cooperate in distributed
settings within different groups called communities. Communities aim to provide web …

Purpose–In any critical system, high‐availability of software components like web services
has so far been achieved through replication. Three replication strategies known as active …

To improve the computational efficiency of web service automatic composition, this article
proposes a novel approach based on a planning graph and propositional logic. This …

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 …

Communities gather Web services that provide a common functionality, acting as an
intermediate layer between end users and Web services. On the one hand, they provide a …

Communities that gather functionally identical or complementary cloud services aim to
provide better visibility, efficiency, and market share. This paper investigates the issue of …