Due to the web services' heterogeneous nature, which stems from the definition of several
XML-based standards to overcome platform and language dependence, web services have …

Publish/Subscribe systems have become a prevalent model for delivering data from
producers (publishers) to consumers (subscribers) distributed across wide-area networks …

(57) ABSTRACT A method and apparatus for partial updating of client inter faces in a client-
server environment. The client updates the corresponding server-side through a …

The Web services architecture defines separate specifications for the composition and the
coordination of Web services. BPEL is a language for creating service compositions in the …

Web service-based development represents an emerging approach for the development of
distributed information systems. Web services have been mainly applied by software …

Business processes not only play a key role in business-to-business and enterprise
application integration scenarios by exposing the appropriate invocation and interaction …

This work presents an assessment model of service interoperability for service composition,
which helps users to judge whether their composite services can be invoked properly. The …

In the S-Cube research framework, the Service Composition and Co-ordination (SCC) layer
encompasses the functions required for the aggregation of multiple services into a single …

The end‐to‐end QoS negotiation for service level agreement establishment for composite
services involves compound multi‐party negotiations in which the composite service …

The OGC Web Processing Service specification provides a means to perform distributed
web-based processing on geodata. However, the specification does not provide the ability to …