The current trend towards dynamic and highly scalable service provisioning fosters the rise of Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms and so called Compute Clouds. The on-demand p...
Although Web services are intended for short term, ad hoc collaborations, in practice many Web service compositions are offered longterm to customers. While the Web services makin...
Lianne Bodenstaff, Andreas Wombacher, Manfred Reic...
— One of the main challenges in the area of Service Oriented Computing, in general, and of Web services technology, in particular, is the definition of languages and models for ...
E-contracts express the rights and obligations of parties through a formal, digital representation of the contract provisions. In process intensive relationships, e-contracts conta...
The increased fluidity and agility of organizations demand the smooth mediation of information technology (IT) between user and task. As rigid hierarchies are giving way to open, ...