— The usual scenario of service oriented systems is characterized by several services offering the same functionalities, by new services that are continuosly deployed and by othe...
In the context of Service Oriented Computing behavioural contracts are descriptions of the observable message-passing behaviour of services. In other terms, contracts are behaviour...
Web services are self-contained, modular units of application logic which provide business functionality to other applications via Internet connections. Several models have been u...
Web/Gridservices'metadataandsemanticsarebecomingincreasingimportantforservicesharing and effective reuse. In this paper we present a generic framework for engineering and man...
Liming Chen, Nigel R. Shadbolt, Carole A. Goble, F...
Abstract. The shift from Web pages to Web services enables programmatic access to the near limitless information on the World Wide Web. Autonomous agents should generate concise an...
Michael Czajkowski, Anna L. Buczak, Martin O. Hofm...