The global scale and distribution of companies have changed the economy and dynamics of
businesses. Web-based collaborations and cross-organizational processes typically require …

Human Interactions in Mixed Systems Page 1 Human Interactions in Mixed Systems
Architecture, Protocols, and Algorithms Daniel Schall Distributed Systems Group Institute of …

Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) have become the de facto standard
for designing distributed and loosely coupled applications. Many service-based applications …

Crowdsourcing is an increasingly used model to outsource certain tasks to be carried out by
external experts on the Web. Especially when lacking experience or expertise with certain …

Since the Internet of Services (IoS) is becoming reality, there is an inherent need for novel
service selection mechanisms, which work in spite of large numbers of alternative services …

The emergence of large-scale online collaboration requires current information systems to
be apprehended as service ensembles comprising human and software service entities. The …

Cross-enterprise collaboration has emerged as a key survival factor in today's global
markets. Semantic Web technologies are the basis to establish enterprise interoperability …

Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) have become the de facto standard
for designing distributed and loosely coupled applications. Many service-based applications …

Software architecture has been shown to provide an appropriate level of granularity for
representation of a managed software system and reasoning about the impact of adaptation …

This chapter addresses one of the major problems of SOA software development: the lack of
support for testing complex service-oriented systems. The research community has …