Hierarchies are one of the most common structures used to understand and conceptualise
the world. Within the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) planning, which deals with the …

Hierarchies are the most common structure used to understand the world better. In galaxies,
for instance, multiple-star systems are organised in a hierarchical system. Then …

Web service composition (WSC) is the task of combining a chain of connected single
services together to create a more complex and value-added composite service. Quality of …

Enterprises heavily rely on the state-of-the-art information technologies user behaviors and
social system to sustain business competitiveness. Service-Oriented Architecture (SoA) and …

Much of the research on automated Web Service Composition (WSC) relates it to an AI
planning task, where the composition is primarily done offline prior to execution. Recent …

Abstract Service composition and optimal selection (SCOS) plays a crucial role in cloud
manufacturing (CMfg). While the existing service composition methods are hard to address …

We claim that user preferences are a key component of effective Web service composition,
and one that has largely been ignored. In this paper we propose a means of specifying and …

This paper presents an approach to statically retrofit legacy servers with mechanisms for
authorization policy enforcement. The approach is based upon the observation that security …

Recently, there has been growing interest in developing web services composition search
systems. Current solutions have the drawback of including redundant web services in the …

With the evolution of Web technologies, various services have become available in a
pervasive network environment. Combining simple atomic services into sophisticated …