In advanced service oriented systems, complex applications, described as abstract business
processes, can be executed by invoking a number of available Web services. End users can …

Business process modeling and enactment are notoriously complex, especially in open
settings, where business partners are autonomous, requirements must be continually …

Current middleware solutions, eg, application servers and Web services, are very complex
software products that are hard to tame because of intricacies of distributed systems. Their …

The services on the Internet are evolving. The various properties of the services, such as
their prices and performance, keep changing. To ensure user satisfaction in the long run, it is …

Web services simplify enterprise application integration by facilitating reuse of existing
components for creating new services. In a dynamic environment, it is imperative to design a …

This paper addresses automatic service composition (ASC) as a means to create new value-
added services dynamically and automatically from existing services in service-oriented …

Web processes are the next generation workflows created using Web services. This paper
addresses research issues in creating a framework for configuring and executing dynamic …

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 …

In the past, enterprise resource planning systems were designed as monolithic software
systems running on centralized mainframes. Today, these systems are (re-) designed as a …

The demand for quickly delivering new applications is increasingly becoming a business
imperative today. However, application development is often done in an ad hoc manner …