Web service composition has been the subject of a number of standardisation initiatives.
These initiatives have met various difficulties and had mixed degrees of success, and none …

Service chain management enables service organisations to improve customer satisfaction
and reduce operational costs through intelligent and optimised forecasting, planning and …

Computer science is on the edge of an important new period of abstraction. A generation
ago we learned to abstract from hardware and currently we are learning to abstract from …

Business process modelling languages typically enable the representation of business
process models by employing (graphical) symbols. These symbols can vary depending …

Composing a scientific workflow from scratch may be time-consuming, even if the scientist is
fully aware of the semantics, the inputs, and the outputs of the expected workflow. Reusing …

Reliability is one of the main challenge that encounter Web servicescompositions. Due to
the inherent autonomy and heterogeneity of Webservices it is difficult to predict the behavior …

In several industry scenarios, an existing reference workflow often has to be adapted
according to specific context factors, which might even change at runtime. The involved …

Recently, there has been a proliferation of service-based systems, ie, software systems that
are composed of autonomous services but can also use software code. In order to support …

The idea of service orientation envisions dynamic detection and execution of suitable Web
services for solving a particular request. Most realization approaches pay only little attention …

The ability to build new (complex) services by composing existing services is one of the key
benefits of the Service Oriented Architecture paradigm. Existing approaches to automate …