Although web services are generally envisioned as being stateless, some of them are implicitly stateful. The reason is that the web services often work as front-ends to enterprise...
Abstract. The task of verifying the compatibility between interacting web services has traditionally been limited to checking the compatibility of the interaction protocol in terms...
Abstract. The notion of session is fundamental in service oriented applications, as it separates interactions between different instances of the same service, and it groups togethe...
Web services are designed for composition and use by third parties through dynamic discovery. As such, the issue of interoperability between services is of great importance to ens...
We present a vision of smart, goal-oriented web services that reason about other services’ policies and evaluate the possibility of future interactions. We assume web services wh...
Marco Alberti, Federico Chesani, Marco Gavanelli, ...