The push toward business process automation has generated the need for integrating different enterprise applications involved in such processes. The typical approach to integration...
This paper presents a loosely coupled service-composition paradigm. This paradigm employs a distributed data flow that differs markedly from centralized information flow adopted b...
David Liu, Jun Peng, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold
We study the access control integration problem for web services. Organizations frequently use many services, each with its own access control policies, that must interoperate whi...
Service level agreements (SLAs) impose many nonfunctional requirements on services. Business analysts specify and check these requirements in business process models using tools s...
Hua Xiao, Brian Chan, Ying Zou, Jay W. Benayon, Bi...
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an evolving architectural paradigm where businesses can expose their capabilities as modular, network-accessible software services. By decom...
M. Brian Blake, William Kwok-Wai Cheung, Michael C...