The need to add semantic information to web-accessible services has created a growing research activity in this area. Standard initiatives such as OWL-S and WSDL enable the automat...
A web service is a programmable web application accessible using standard Internet protocols. A threelayer architecture has been suggested for web services: service providers, ser...
Composition of stateful web services expressed in BPEL4WS can be recasted as a problem of planning in asynchronous domains. In (PTB05), this is pursued by encoding the asynchronou...
Piergiorgio Bertoli, Marco Pistore, Paolo Traverso
Algorithms for composing Web services (WS) traditionally utilize the functional and quality-of-service parameters of candidate services to decide which services to include in the ...
Middleware for Web service compositions, such as BPEL engines, provides the execution environment for services as well as additional functionalities, such as monitoring and self-t...
Domenico Bianculli, Walter Binder, Mauro Luigi Dra...