Towards the ultimate goal of seamless interaction among networked programs and devices,
industry has developed orchestration and process modeling languages such as XLANG …

The service-oriented paradigm promises a novel degree of interoperability between
business processes, and is leading to a major shift in way distributed applications are …

This paper presents an approach to using semantic web services in managing production
processes. In particular, the devices in the production systems considered expose web …

With the increasing need for networked applications and distributed resource sharing, there
is a strong incentive for an open large-scale service infrastructure operating over …

Agent-based technologies are often used including existing web services. The outputs of
some services are also frequently used as inputs for other services, including other MAS …

Decimal arithmetic is regaining popularity in the computing community due to the growing
importance of commercial, financial, and Internet-based applications, which process decimal …

Since Fielding's seminal contribution on the REST architecture style in 2000, the so-called
class of RESTful services has taken off to challenge previously existing Web services …

Web services are often deployed with critical software bugs that may be maliciously
exploited. Developers often trust on penetration testing tools to detect those vulnerabilities …

Looking for Best Practices for RESTful APIs? This book is for you! Why? Because this book
is packed with practical experience on what works best for RESTful API Design. You want to …

Data-dependent access patterns of an application to an untrusted storage system are
notorious for leaking sensitive information about the user's data. Previous research has …