Hierarchies are one of the most common structures used to understand and conceptualise
the world. Within the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) planning, which deals with the …

In previous chapters we have discussed the architecture of information systems (Chapter 1),
middleware and enterprise application integration (Chapters 2 and 3), and the basics of …

The main focus of this paper is on automatic e-Service composition. We start by developing
a framework in which the exported behavior of an e-Service is described in terms of its …

Hierarchies are the most common structure used to understand the world better. In galaxies,
for instance, multiple-star systems are organised in a hierarchical system. Then …

This paper addresses the issue of automatic service composition. We first develop a
framework in which the exported behavior of a service is described in terms of a so-called …

We show how the service composition problem can be viewed as a planning problem in
which state descriptions are ambiguous and operator definitions are incomplete. We then …

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

Web services have a potential to enhance B2B e-commerce over the Internet by allowing
companies and organizations to publish their business processes on service directories …

The current standards for web service composition, eg BPEL. neither cater for dynamic
service composition nor for dynamic business configuration. Our firm belief is that business …

Domotics, concerned with the realization of intelligent home environments, is a novel field
which can highly benefit from solutions inspired by service-oriented principles to enhance …