Emerging semantic web service description formalisms, such as OWL-S, allow for a definition of the semantic of services. Describing input and output types is not sufficient to dec...
Semantic Web Services are generally considered as the evolution of conventional Web Services. Semantic information included in the service descriptions enables the development of ...
This paper is about Web services used in distributed, inter-organizational business cooperation (choreography). In this application scenario, we have a multipart functional conven...
Loose coupling is often cited as a defining characteristic of service-oriented architectures. Interactions between services take place via messages in an asynchronous environment ...
Traditional process support systems offer the promise of software assembled from service elements. The typical approach is a static composition of atomic processes to more powerfu...