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 …

This article presents a semantics-based context-aware dynamic service composition
framework that composes an application through combining distributed components based …

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 …

Rapidly changing business requirements necessitate the ad-hoc composition of expert
teams to handle complex business cases. Expert-centric properties such as skills, however …

The Web service selection phase is usually driven only by functional requirements. Non
functional requirements, such as quality of service, should be negotiated by the service …

Web-based collaboration and virtual environments supported by various Web 2.0 concepts
enable the application of numerous monitoring, mining and analysis tools to study human …

Modern technologies enable users accessing services using multiple channels. In the
service design phase, this poses additional requirements for high software adaptivity along …

With the advent of Service Oriented Architecture organizations have experienced services
as a platform-independent technology to develop and use simple internal applications or …

Over the past two decades, several languages have been proposed to describe software
architectures to promote the development of architecturefocused applications. In general …

The ongoing diffusion of novel and mobile devices offers new ways to provide services
across a growing set of network technologies. As a consequence, traditional information …