—Collaborative mechanisms between services are a crucial aspect in the recent development of pervasive computing systems based on the paradigm of service-oriented architecture. C...
Business protocols are becoming a necessary part of Web services description [4]. The work presented in [4] investigates mechanisms for analyzing the compatibility and the substit...
Currently, flexible service compositions are invoked in a centralised manner by process execution engines. Although this approach is widely used for orchestrating web services, it...
This paper provides three contributions to the study of functional integration of distributed enterprise systems. First, we describe the challenges associated with functionally in...
Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Douglas C. Schmidt, ...
Traditionally, workflow management systems aim at alleviating people's burden of coordinating repetitive business procedures, i.e., they coordinate people. Web service orchest...