While SOAP/XML is perceived as the appropriate interoperability level for web-services, companies compete to provide workflow-based tools for web-service integration. This paper p...
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) and Web Services (WS) provide a flexible computing platform for electronic business and commerce. Introducing policy-based computing to service-or...
The EU Services Directive aims at easing the burdens for the EU's citizens to open up new businesses by providing a single-point-of-contact for the complete business lifecycle...
Semantic Business Process Management is a recent and promising research area devoted to extending the results from Semantic Web Services — i.e., the application of ontology-base...
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...