Abstract Service-oriented computing is now acknowledged as a central paradigm for Internet
computing, supported by tremendous research and technology development over the last 10 …

The increasing usage of smart embedded devices in business blurs the line between the
virtual and real worlds. This creates new opportunities to build applications that better …

A central concern in the area of pervasive computing has been the integration of digital
artifacts with the physical world and vice-versa. Recent developments in the field of …

Web service is one of the fundamental technologies in implementing Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) based applications. One of the essential challenges in web service …

Discovering services acquires importance as Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) becomes
an adopted paradigm. SOC's most popular materializations, namely Web Services …

Recently, there has been growing interest in web services composition. Web services
composition gives us a possibility to fulfil the user request when no single web service can …

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a new paradigm that replaces the traditional way to
develop distributed software with a combination of discovery, engagement and reuse of third …

The increasing number of Web service providers over the Web has prompted the need for
research in service description and discovery. The Web service requesters need tools, in …

Recently, there has been growing interest in develo** web services composition search
systems. Current solutions have the drawback of including redundant web services in the …

The Web 2.0 era is characterized by the emergence of a very large amount of live content. A
real time and fine grained content filtering approach can precisely keep users up-to-date the …