There is now widespread acceptance of Web services and service-oriented architectures. But despite the agreement on key Web services standards there remain many challenges. Progra...
Automated web service composition is one of the major promises of serviceoriented architecture, where services can be discovered and composed dynamically and automatically. To inv...
Services are developed separately and without knowledge of all possible use contexts. They often mismatch or do not correspond exactly to the end-user needs, making direct composit...
Most languages used for developing web services and clients exhibit properties which make calling remote functions across a network a non-trivial task. The type systems used by ob...
Peter M. Kelly, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew L. Wend...
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...