The introduction of software development via Web Services has been the most significant
web engineering paradigm, in the last years. The widely acknowledged importance of the …

This work proposes a Web Service (WS) discovery model in which the functional and non-
functional requirements are taken into account during service discovery. The proposed …

Attempts have been made concerning the search and finding of a Web Service based on
keywords and descriptions. However, no work has been done concerning the efficient …

Service Oriented Computing and its most famous implementation technology Web Services
(WS) are becoming an important enabler of networked business models. Discovery …

Abstract Late developments in Web Service discovery approaches mainly focus on the
incorporation of the QoS concept in the selection process. In this paper, we present a …

Web Services (WS) constitute an essential factor for the next generation of application
integration. An important direction, apart from the optimization of the description mechanism …

The Semantic Web vision is among others to allow automatic identification and selection of
Web documents and services to meet the requirements of users. In this work we provide a …

Web services serve as a leading technology platform for web-based data-centric
environments providing flexibility of loose coupling, message-based communication. Interest …

Web Services (WS) have introduced an new era for distributed application development. WS
are based on ubiquitously adopted internet standards, therefore supporting interoperability …

Traditional distributed database transaction applications within large organizations often
involve a large number of resources. In this case, people and DDBMSs distributed over a …