The paper proposes a general framework to composite Web services selection based on multicriteria evaluation. The proposed framework extends the Web services architecture by adding...
The integration of Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems is at the centre of many of the new regional and national initiatives to integrate clinical processes across department,...
Web services have been widely employed to allow interoperability among applications and/or technologies. However, the standard technologies and protocols which provide the foundat...
There are emerging technologies such as SAWSDL or WSMO that extend the current Web Services technologies to so called Semantic Web Services by combining the structural and semanti...
This paper presents the QoS-MO ontology. This ontology enables the specification of QoS requirements for Semantic Web Services and can easily be combined with OWL-S in order to fu...
The importance of the Web service technology for business, government, among other sectors, is growing. Its use in these sectors demands security concern. The Web Services Securit...
When designing distributed web services, there are three properties that are commonly desired: consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. It is impossible to achieve all ...
Interactive web services are increasingly replacing traditional static web pages. Producing web services seems to require a tremendous amount of laborious lowlevel coding due to t...
of abstractions a middleware system makes available to applications, they figure prominently in determining the breadth and variety of application integration that the middleware s...
Web Services will transform the web from a collection of information into a distributed computational device. In order to employ their full potential, appropriate description means...