The discovery of services that are appropriate for answering a given question is a crucial task in the open and distributed environment of web services for geographic information. ...
Middleware for web service orchestration, such as runtime engines for executing business processes, workflows, or web service compositions, can easily become performance bottleneck...
Abstract. Orc is a new language for task orchestration, a form of concurrent programming with applications in workflow, business process management, and web service orchestration. ...
Web services are distributed processes with a public description of their behavior, or contract. The availability of repositories of Web service descriptions enables interesting f...
—Developing service compositions, using multiple standards and implementation techniques, typically involves specifying service characteristics in different languages and tools. ...