Abstract Service-oriented computing (SOC) represents a paradigm for building distributed
computing applications over the Internet. In the past decade, Web services composition has …

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 …

Web services are modular web applications that can be independently deployed and
invoked by other software or services on the web. This offers enterprises the capability to …

The development of new Web services through the composition of existing ones has gained
a considerable momentum as a means to realise business-to-business collaborations …

Dynamic web service composition can serve applications or users on an on-demand basis.
With dynamic composition, the application's capabilities can be extended at runtime so that …

In software service provision, the overall performance of a composite service is often the
ultimate focus of concern rather than those of its individual components. This opens new …

Web services have become an emerging and promising technology to design and build
complex business applications out of atomic web-based software components. To enforce …

Abstract The vision of Semantic Web services promises a network of interoperable Web
services over different sources. A major challenge to the realization of this vision is the lack …

The notion of the information technology (IT) artifact has received a great deal of attention,
particularly since Benbasat and Zmud's (2003) call for it to be the core of the information …

In SOA, one challenging problem is the QoS evaluation for the newly composed service.
Most existing work on service composition focuses mainly on the static QoS behavior of …