Recently, Web services have generated great interests in both vendors and researchers.
Web services, based on existing Internet protocols and open standards, can provide a …

Workflow management systems (WfMSs) have been used to support various types of
business processes for more than a decade now. In workflows or Web processes for e …

Recently there has been a growing interest in the investigation and development of the next
generation web-the Semantic Web. While most of the current forms of web content are …

Web services will transform the web from a collection of information into a distributed
computational device. In order to employ their full potential, appropriate description means …

An important objective of the Semantic Web is to make Electronic Commerce interactions
more flexible and automated. To achieve this, standardization of ontologies, message …

Creating Web processes using Web service technology gives us the opportunity for
selecting new services, which best suit our need at the moment. Doing this automatically …

Contributions in the field of Web services have identified that (a) finding matches between
semantic descriptions of advertised and requested services and (b) nonfunctional …

A proper understanding of the general nature, potential and obligations of electronic
services may be achieved by examining existing commercial services in detail. The …

Web services are new forms of Internet software that can be universally deployed and
invoked using standard protocols. Services from different providers can be integrated into a …

Abstract Systems and infrastructures are currently being developed to support Web services.
The main idea is to encapsulate an organization's functionality within an appropriate …