As we are moving towards the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of sensors deployed
around the world is growing at a rapid pace. Market research has shown a significant growth …

A trust and reputation mechanism is a mechanism using consumers' feedbacks to identify
good services from bad ones. Compared with other approaches, it has more advantages in …

Business process management (BPM) aims to optimize business processes to achieve
better system performance such as higher profit, quicker response, and better services. BPM …

Modern economies depend on innovation in services for their future growth. Service
innovation increasingly depends on information technology and digitization of information …

We introduce RATEWeb, a framework for establishing trust in service-oriented
environments. RATEWeb supports a cooperative model in which Web services share their …

With the proliferation of web services, effective QoS-based approach to service
recommendation is becoming more and more important. Although service recommendation …

Web services are expected to be the key technology in enabling the next installment of the
Web in the form of the Service Web. In this paradigm shift, Web services would be treated as …

An Internet application can invoke several services--a stock-trading Web service, for
example, could invoke a payment service, which could then invoke an authentication …

Emerging Web services standards enable the development of large-scale applications in
open environments. In particular, they enable services to be dynamically bound. However …

With rapid technological advancements, cloud marketplace witnessed frequent emergence
of new service providers with similar offerings. However, service level agreements (SLAs) …