IT service providers are increasingly required to orientate their service portfolio towards the IT support of their consumer’s business processes. This enables diversification a...
Service-orientation enables cooperation between multiple organizations and has become a solution of choice to tackle the complexity of ubiquitous computing. The very nature of ubi...
Current service discovery and subscription are “provider-centric” indeed, which costs the consumers too many efforts and makes the wide spectrum of QoS hard to use. In this po...
The growing number of web services advocates distributed discovery infrastructures which are semantics-enabled and support quality of service (QoS). In this paper, we introduce a n...
Emerging Web services standards enable the development of large-scale applications in open environments. In particular, they enable services to be dynamically bound. However, curr...