Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) plays an important role in the next generation computing models for scientific and commercial applications. But difficulties in the development...
Web services provide abstractions for simplifying integration at lower levels of the interaction stacks, they don't yet help simplify integration at higher abstraction levels ...
Rapid advances in networking, hardware, and middleware technologies are facilitating the development and deployment of complex grid applications, such as large-scale distributed co...
In order to tackle the entire web service life cycle, it is necessary to face how to model systems based on service functionality and also how to add extra-functional properties to...
Semantic Web Services facilitate activities including automatic discovery and composition of Web Services. Research initiatives such as WSMO have been developing specifications fo...