Web service selection constitutes nowadays a major challenge that is still attracting the
research community to work on and investigate. The problem arises since decision makers …

Traditional trustworthy service selection approaches focus the overall reputation
maximization of all selected services in social networks. However, the selected services …

With the advent of cloud computing and the rapid increase in the number of deployed
services, the competition between functionally-similar Web services is increasingly …

New media and signal processing applications demand ever higher performance while
operating within the tight power constraints of mobile devices. A range of hardware …

This paper investigates the problem of reputation management in composite services. Our
focus is on developing a method of distribution of reputation received by a composite service …

Blending computational and social elements into software has gained significant attention in
key conferences and journals. In this context," Social Machines" appears as a promising …

This article presents an approach that provides the necessary assistance to those who are in
charge of engineering communities of Web services. Current practices indicate that Web …

Efficient QoS-aware web services selection from the numerous number of functionally
substitutable web services to deliver complex tasks is a current call from the business world …

In recent years, the use of Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) to solve complex problems has
grown rapidly. Social communicative commitments have been widely employed in such …

In modern distributed systems, service consumers are faced with pools of service providers
that offer similar functionalities. This reality renders the selection of web services a …