Service composition is gaining momentum as the potential silver bullet for the envisioned
Semantic Web. It purports to take the Web to unexplored efficiencies and provide a flexible …

Business-to-Business (B2B) technologies pre-date the Web. They have existed for at least
as long as the Internet. B2B applications were among the first to take advantage of advances …

Web services are expected to be the key technology in enabling the next installment of the
Web in the form of the Service Web. In this paradigm shift, Web services would be treated as …

The public sector provides a variety of services to citizens. The delivery of information for
these services over electronic means such as the Internet forms an important component of …

Privacy has been frequently identified as a main concern for system developers while
dealing with/managing personal information. Despite this, most existing work on privacy …

Privacy is an ancient concept, but its interpretation and application in the area of e-
commerce are still new. It is increasingly widely accepted, however, that by giving …

The rapid growth of Web applications has prompted increasing interest in the area of
composite Web services that involve several service providers. The potential for such …

This paper describes the architectural considerations in the design of a web services B2B
application. A component design is presented which exploits the postulated advantages of …

The advent of commercial observation satellites in the new millennium provides
unprecedented access to timely information, as they produce images of the Earth with the …

Web service (WS) providers need to restrain access to private information when cooperating
with business partners. This need is translated in practice by an abstraction phase where …