Web services are a logical evolution of software components and middleware. Based on a comparison of Web services with middleware and components we come up with the statement that...
In this article a formal model applying REST architectural principles to the description of semantic web services is introduced, including the discussion of its syntax and operati...
We tackle the problem of providing rigorous formal foundations to current software engineering technologies for web services. We focus on two of the most used XML-based languages f...
Alessandro Lapadula, Rosario Pugliese, Francesco T...
Web service composition provision which requires efficient coordination of the execution of component services is a critical issue in service-oriented computing. Nowadays, BPEL4WS...
Jun Yan, Phillip Pidgeon, Aneesh Krishna, Jianming...
This paper presents a formal notation for modelling asynchronous web services composition, using context and coordination mechanisms. Our notation specifies the messages that can b...