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 ...
—Web Services are the most famous implementation of service oriented architectures that has brought some challenging research issues. One of these is the composition, i.e. the ca...
The idea of service orientation envisions dynamic detection and execution of suitable Web services for solving a particular request. Most realization approaches pay only little att...
High quality is one of the critical elements contributing to Web service’s success. Monitoring events that are sensitive to quality of Web services is thus an important issue fo...
There have been significant efforts in providing semantic descriptions for Web services, including the approach as exemplified by OWLS. Part of the semantic description in OWL-S is...