The current complexity of IoT systems and devices is a barrier to reach a healthy ecosystem,
mainly due to technological fragmentation and inherent heterogeneity. Meanwhile, the field …

Web mashups are Web applications developed using contents and services available
online. Despite rapidly increasing interest in mashups over the past two years …

After introducing the core constituents of mashups, the components, in this chapter we study
what it means to integrate different components into composite applications, that is …

Abstract Initial developments in Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) led to the development
of Web Services using the SOAP protocol and an extensive set of tools and methods for …

The wide adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has driven the creation of a
massive amount of applications on the Internet, which includes the popular Mashups …

Mashup is a new application development approach that allows users to aggregate multiple
services to create a service for a new purpose. Even if the Mashup approach opens new and …

Today's “high productivity” programming languages such as Python lack the performance of
harder-toprogram “efficiency” languages (CUDA, Cilk, C with OpenMP) that can exploit …

The Web has undergone a tremendous change from a primarily publication platform towards
a participatory and “programmable” platform, where a large number of heterogeneous Web …

In the last years, there has been an increasing interest for Model-Driven Engineering (MDE)
solutions in the Web. Web-based modeling solutions can leverage on better support for …

The use of RESTful Web services has gained momentum in the development of distributed
applications based on traditional Web standards such as HTTP. In particular, these services …