Reducing the energy footprint of warehouse-scale computer (WSC) systems is key to their
affordability, yet difficult to achieve in practice. The lack of energy proportionality of typical …

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 …

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 …

With the advent of Grid and application technologies, scientists and engineers are building
more and more complex applications to manage and process large data sets, and execute …

Current industry standards for describing Web Services focus on ensuring interoperability
across diverse platforms, but do not provide a good foundation for automating the use of …

Service composition is gaining momentum as the potential silver bullet for the envisioned
Semantic Web. It purports to take the Web to unexplored efficiencies and provide a flexible …

Huge advances in peer-to-peer systems and attempts to develop the semantic web have
revealed a critical issue in information systems across multiple domains: the absence of …

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 …

Web services are the new paradigm for distributed computing. They have much to offer
towards interoperability of applications and integration of large scale distributed systems. To …

A business process may be modeled in different ways by different modelers even when
utilizing the same modeling language. An appropriate method for solving ambiguity issues …