Service providers as we know them nowadays are the always-on “static” web service providers, that aim at Five9 availability (99.999%). Formal, or de-facto, standards, such as ...
Interactive applications like Problem Solving Environments require on demand access to Web Services, where the services are autonomously discovered, composed, selected and invocate...
Composing existing Web services to deliver new functionality is a difficult problem as it involves resolving semantic, syntactic and structural differences among the interfaces of...
Several extensions of the Web Services Framework have been proposed. The combination with Semantic Web technologies introduces a notion of semantics, which can enhance scalability ...
Currently we are experiencing the emergence of the fourth generation of the World Wide Web which is geared towards service and data provision using semantic and ontological inform...