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 …

Service-oriented computing has become one of the predominant factors in current IT
research and development. Web services seem to be the middleware solution of the future …

Performance engineering of parallel and distributed applications is a complex task that
iterates through various phases, ranging from modeling and prediction, to performance …

The automatic location of services that fulfill a given need is a key step towards dynamic and
scalable integration. In this paper we present a model for the automatic location of services …

SOAP, a simple, robust, and extensible protocol for the exchange of messages, is the most
widely used communication protocol in the Web services model. SOAP's XML-based …

We explore the design patterns and architectural tradeoffs for achieving interoperability
across communication middleware platforms, and describe uMiddle, a bridging framework …

Interacting services play a key role to realize business process integration among different
business partners by means of electronic message exchange. In order to provide seamless …

Current technologies for Web Services are based on syntactical descriptions and, therefore,
lend themselves to only limited amount of automation. Research efforts in Semantic Web …

Abstract The Internet of Things mechanisms enable the management of home environments
since they can be developed as IoT based information systems. From standard smart homes …

The convergence of Web services and grid computing has promoted SOAP, a widely used
Web services protocol, into a prominent protocol for a wide variety of grid applications …