The prominence of cloud computing led to unprecedented proliferation in the number of web
services deployed in cloud data centers. In parallel, service communities have gained …

Modern database management systems (DBMS) have been designed to efficiently store,
manage and perform computations on massive amounts of data. In contrast, many existing …

This paper presents an approach whose objective is to support Web services substitution.
Substitution means replacing a component with another component, as long as the …

With the advent of cloud computing and the rapid increase in the number of deployed
services, the competition between functionally-similar Web services is increasingly …

We present an optimization approach for service compositions in large-scale service-
oriented systems that are subject to Quality of Service (QoS) constraints. In particular, we …

Web services composition is a keystone in the development of interoperable systems.
However, despite the widespread adoption of Web services, several obstacles still hinder …

The Service Oriented Architecture enables the development of flexible large scale-
applications in open environments by dynamically combining Web services. Nevertheless …

In this dissertation, we present a novel approach for the automatic composition of Web
services on the envisioned Semantic Web. Automatic service composition requires dealing …

This article presents an approach that provides the necessary assistance to those who are in
charge of engineering communities of Web services. Current practices indicate that Web …

This paper discusses a framework to manage Web services using the concept of community
and the metaphor of social networking. On the one hand, a community gathers Web services …