Web services are a consolidated reality of the modern Web with tremendous, increasing
impact on everyday computing tasks. They turned the Web into the largest, most accepted …

Cloud technology connects a network of virtualized computers that are dynamically
provisioned as computing resources, based on negotiated agreements between service …

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

The paradigmatic shift from a Web of manual interactions to a Web of programmatic
interactions driven by Web services is creating unprecedented opportunities for the …

With the increasing presence and adoption of web services on the World Wide Web, the
demand of efficient web service quality evaluation approaches is becoming …

Due to the web services' heterogeneous nature, which stems from the definition of several
XML-based standards to overcome platform and language dependence, web services have …

The emerging Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm promises to enable businesses
and organizations to collaborate in an unprecedented way by means of standard web …

The run-time binding of web services has been recently put forward in order to support rapid
and dynamic web service compositions. With the growing number of alternative web …

Discovering Web services using keyword-based search techniques offered by existing UDDI
APIs (ie Inquiry API) may not yield results that are tailored to clients' needs. When …