In the last years, Web Service composition has undoubtedly become the most promising
way to integrate business-to-business applications. However, the industry and the academia …

The Web 2.0 wave brings, among other aspects, the Programmable Web: increasing
numbers of Web sites provide machine-oriented APIs and Web services. However, most …

After introducing the core constituents of mashups, the components, in this chapter we study
what it means to integrate different components into composite applications, that is …

Abstract Initial developments in Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) led to the development
of Web Services using the SOAP protocol and an extensive set of tools and methods for …

With the explosion of “big data” in the past decade, exploring and mining the value hidden in
the data has already generated a lot of innovative applications, especially the recent …

Abstract Information integration, application integration and component-based software
development have been among the most important research areas for decades. The last …

The Web has undergone a tremendous change from a primarily publication platform towards
a participatory and “programmable” platform, where a large number of heterogeneous Web …

Internet of Things (IoT) can provide new value-added service by connecting the physical
devices to virtual environments association with their context, and there is also a huge …

Web-accessible services, referred to as Web services, are an integral part of modern
information technology, from mobile devices to cloud-and crowd-computing. The Internet of …

With the wide adoption of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the number of web
accessible services and their compositions is increasing rapidly. Among huge number of …