Security is one of the major concerns when developing missioncritical business applications, and this concern motivated the Web Services Security specifications. However, the exis...
Reuse of software entities such as components or web services raise composition issues since, most of the time, they present mismatching behavioural interfaces. Here, we particula...
Businesses increasingly provide and use services, applying formal (Web) services technology for the description, composition, and management of software as services. At the same t...
Composition of Web Services (WSs) is anticipated as the future standard way to dynamically build distributed applications, and hence their verification and validation is attractin...
Middleware for web service orchestration, such as runtime engines for executing business processes, workflows, or web service compositions, can easily become performance bottleneck...