A unique type of Web service, called a Social Network Service (SNS), first appeared in 2003. Some researches suggested a method to extract meaningful information from SNSs. Such ...
Business rules define or constrain some business [24]. Many different business rules engines exist to capture and manage the rules that comprise ones business. The lack of standa...
Dynamic assembly of complex software is possible through automated composition of web services. Coordination scripts identify and orchestrate a number of services to fulfil a user ...
Service granularity generally refers to the size of a service. The fact that services should be large-sized or coarse-grained is often postulated as a fundamental design principle ...
The pace of technological change requires applications to constantly evolve. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) promises to render this evolution more flexible. We present a cas...