The growing popularity of massively accessed Web applications that store and analyze
large amounts of data, being Facebook, Twitter and Google Search some prominent …

In the last years, Web Service composition has undoubtedly become the most promising
way to integrate business-to-business applications. However, the industry and the academia …

With the advancement of web 2.0 and the development of the Internet of Things (IoT), all
tasks can be handled with the help of handheld devices. Web APIs or web services are …

The process of Web service discovery identifies the most relevant services to requesters'
service queries. We propose a new measure of semantic similarity integrating multiple …

With the broad adoption of service-oriented architecture, many software systems have been
developed by composing loosely-coupled Web services. Service discovery, a critical step of …

With the wide adoption of service-oriented computing and cloud computing, service-based
systems (SBSs), a kind of software systems that can offer certain functionalities by …

In recent years, discovering appropriate web services has become increasingly difficult as
the number of services has grown rapidly. With the goal of improving discovery performance …

With the rapid development of electronic business, Web services have attracted much
attention in recent years. Enterprises can combine individual Web services to provide new …

The service‐oriented computing (SOC) paradigm has recently gained a lot of attention in the
software industry because SOC represents a novel and a fresh way of architecting …

Service‐oriented development is challenging mainly because Web service developers tend
to disregard the importance of the exposed service APIs, which are specified using Web …