Services are developed separately and without knowledge of all possible use contexts. They often mismatch or do not correspond exactly to the end-user needs, making direct composit...
Adaptation is of utmost importance in systems developed by assembling reusable software services accessed through their public interfaces. This process aims at solving, as automat...
There exists a growing class of distributed applications that require adaptive middleware services, i.e., services that are able to monitor changes in the execution environment an...
An adaptation contract describes composition constraints and adaptation requirements among several services which were not initially built to interoperate with each other. The man...
Enterprise systems are frequently built by combining a number of discrete Web services together, a process termed composition. There are a number of architectural configurations ...