The idea of creating and running a business over the Internet is not new. Banks and large
manufacturers are among the first in exploiting the electronic network capabilities to conduct …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) technology is starting to make an impact in a wide array of
applications, including smart cities and industrial environments. Such real-world …

Legacy system migration to the cloud brings both great challenges and benefits, so there
exist various academic research and industrial applications on legacy system migration to …

The push toward business automation, motivated by opportunities in terms of cost savings
and higher quality, more reliable executions, has generated the need for integrating the …

With the rapid growth in the number of online Web services, the problem of service
adaptation has received significant attention. In matching and adaptation, the functional …

Standardization in Web services simplifies integration. However, it does not remove the
need for adapters due to possible heterogeneity among service interfaces and protocols. In …

This book is the second volume in a set of books dealing with the evolution of technology, IT
and organizational approaches and what this means for industrial equipment. The authors …

Semantic annotations of web services can support the effective and efficient discovery of
services, and guide their composition into workflows. At present, however, the practical utility …

This paper discusses software abstractions that facilitate the development of loosely-
coupled automation systems, ie systems where elements can be easily added, removed, or …

We deal with the problem of automated analysis of web service protocol compatibility and
replaceability in presence of timing abstractions. We first present a timed protocol model for …