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 …

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 …

Business rules change quite often. These changes cannot be handled efficiently by
representing business rules embedded in the source code of the business logic. Efficient …

Abstract Service compositions are created by exploiting existing component services that
are, in general, out of the control of the composition developer. The challenge nowadays is …

By definition, regulatory rules (in legal context called norms) intend to achieve specific
behaviour from business processes, and might be relevant to the whole or part of a business …

Examines the application of statistical traffic modeling for detecting novel attacks against
computer networks. We discuss the application of network activity models and application …

Business processes used in networked business are often large and complex, which makes
them difficult to manage and change. In this paper we address this lack of flexibility by …

The requester's service request sometimes includes multiple related functionalities to be
satisfied by the Web service. In many cases the Web service has a limited functionality which …

In recent years, service-oriented computing has been successfully adopted by the industry
and used in numerous projects. This raises however new challenges, especially with …

Currently, service-oriented computing is mainly technology-driven. Most developments focus
on the technology that enables enterprises to describe, publish and compose application …