The vision of the Internet of Things (IoT) foresees a future Internet incorporating smart
physical objects that offer hosted functionality as IoT services. These services when …

Abstract The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) has become the dominant
means for expressing traditional business processes as workflows. The widespread …

The development of pervasive computing has put the light on a challenging problem: how to
dynamically compose services in heterogeneous and highly changing environments? We …

A computing infrastructure where" everything is a service" offers many new system and
application possibilities. Among the main challenges, however, is the issue of service …

Software in Ubiquitous Computing is faced with a dynamic and heterogeneous environment.
For tapping the environment's full potential, software must be able to adapt dynamically and …

Web Services technology provides the basis for interoperability, dynamic discovery and
integration of distributed components. On the other hand, mobile agents have been utilized …

In highly dynamic and heterogeneous environments such as mobile and ubiquitous
computing, software must be able to adapt at runtime and react to the environment …

Web services management has attracted substantial research and industry interests in
recent years. Web services technology is gaining popularity because of its well defined …

We discuss the integration of two contemporary service technologies: Web services and
mobile agents. We exploit the capabilities offered by mobile agents to query and invoke …

In this paper we propose a mobile-agent-based web service composition (MAWSC) model
for the dynamic web service composition (WSC). As compared with the traditional WSC …