In this paper, we present an approach based on hierarchically structured business models as artifacts of business process modeling that are used in a stepwise acquisition process f...
We give a formal account of a calculus for modeling service-based systems, suitable to describe both service composition (orchestration) and the protocol that services run when in...
Ivan Lanese, Francisco Martins, Vasco Thudichum Va...
The evolution of service-oriented architectures towards digital ecosystems comprehends a number of challenges. According to Papazoglou et al., one challenge is to develop services...
Gregor Scheithauer, Konrad Voigt, Veli Bicer, Matt...
With the rapid growth of the Internet and pervasive computing activities, the migration of back-end legacy systems to network centric environments has become a focal point for res...
Based on top of Web protocols and XML language, Web services are emerging as a framework to provide applicationto-application interaction. An important challenge is their integrat...