Quality of service (QoS) can be a critical element for achieving the business goals of a
service provider, for the acceptance of a service by the user, or for guaranteeing service …

Depth maps captured by Kinect-like cameras are lack of depth data in some areas and suffer
from heavy noise. These defects have negative impacts on practical applications. In order to …

Web services have had a tremendous impact on the Web for supporting a distributed service-
based economy on a global scale. However, despite the outstanding progress, their uptake …

This paper addresses automatic service composition (ASC) as a means to create new value-
added services dynamically and automatically from existing services in service-oriented …

Providing data as a service has not only fostered the access to data from anywhere at
anytime but also reduced the cost of investment. However, data is often associated with …

In most of quality of service (QoS)-based web service selection systems, inexperienced end
users are not the focal point of the design. Most systems assume that users could formulate …

Cloud governance, and in particular data governance in the cloud, relies on different
technical and organizational practices and procedures, such as policy enforcement, risk …

Abstract Service discovery is a key activity to actually identify the Web services (WSs) to be
invoked and composed. Since it is likely that more than one service fulfill a set of user …

REST principles define services as resources that can be manipulated by a set of well-
known methods. The same approach is suitable to define service descriptions as resources …

Abstract The composition of Web APIs provides a great opportunity to Web engineers that
can reuse existing software components available on the Web. Finding the best API, fulll-ing …