In this tutorial paper we present quantitative methods for analysing Web Services with the goal of understanding how they will perform under increased demand, or when asked to serv...
Electronic contracts describe inter-organizational business processes in terms of supply and consumption of electronic services (commonly Web services). In a given contract domain,...
Marcelo Fantinato, Itana Maria de Souza Gimenes, M...
One area of the web services architecture yet to be standardised is that of fault tolerance for services. At the same time, WS-BPEL is moving from a de facto standard to an OASIS ...
Semantic Web Services are generally considered as the evolution of conventional Web Services. Semantic information included in the service descriptions enables the development of ...
Web Services (WSs) are the W3C-endorsed realization of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Since they are supposed to be implementation-neutral, WSs are typically tested blac...