As the number of available Web services increases, there is a growing demand to find the service that best fits the user's requirements. Especially, when a set of services fu...
The Grid is the computing and data management infrastructure, which is transforming science, business, health and society. This paper deals with a challenging task addressing know...
Service providers as we know them nowadays are the always-on “static” web service providers, that aim at Five9 availability (99.999%). Formal, or de-facto, standards, such as ...
To run a smart E-Business or provide efficient Web service, a web services composition model is needed. Web services composition refers to the process of collaborating the heterog...
Emerging semantic web service description formalisms, such as OWL-S, allow for a definition of the semantic of services. Describing input and output types is not sufficient to dec...