Software Engineering principles and practices promote the reuse of existing elements to
maximize the performance of development and maintenance processes. The core concepts …

In a ubiquitous environment, various enterprise information systems (EISs) are used for
supporting daily operations. Besides, with the support with Auto-ID technology, enterprises …

Abstract Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has gained considerable popularity for the
development of distributed enterprise-wide applications within the software industry. The …

The service‐oriented computing (SOC) paradigm has recently gained a lot of attention in the
software industry because SOC represents a novel and a fresh way of architecting …

Web Service discovery and selection deal with the retrieval of the most suitable Web
Service, given a required functionality. Addressing an effective solution remains difficult …

Due to stochasticity and uncertainty of malicious Web services over the Internet, it becomes
difficult to select reliable services while meeting non-functional requirements in service …

Abstract Service-Oriented Computing promotes building applications by consuming and
reusing Web Services. However, the selection of adequate Web Services given a client …

This paper proposes the application of the abductive event calculus to the web service
composition and execution problem. There are different approaches to web service …

Services are expected to be a promising way for people to use information and computing
resources in our emerging ubiquitous network society and cloud computing environments. In …

The widespread use of service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and Web services in
commercial software requires the adoption of development techniques to ensure the quality …