As the number of available Web services increases there is a growing demand to realise complex business processes by combining and reusing available Web services. In this context,...
XML is currently being used as the message syntax for Web services. To enable small mobile devices to use Web services, this XML use must not be too resource-consuming. Due to seve...
Jaakko Kangasharju, Sasu Tarkoma, Tancred Lindholm
This paper presents a loosely coupled service-composition paradigm. This paradigm employs a distributed data flow that differs markedly from centralized information flow adopted b...
David Liu, Jun Peng, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold
With the growing popularity of Web services, an increasing number of Web services have been integrated into and used by complex service oriented systems. As a result, the manageme...
Martin Treiber, Hong Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar
In this paper, we introduce WPML (WebProfiles Markup Language) for expressing user-context preferences information in the Web. Using WPML a service provider can negotiate and obta...