The implementation of service-oriented device architectures (SODA) suffers from restrictions that are imposed by the use of existing syntactic technologies. Related problems includ...
—Web Services are the most famous implementation of service oriented architectures that has brought some challenging research issues. One of these is the composition, i.e. the ca...
Discovery of Web Services (WSs) has gained great research attention due to proliferation of available WSs and the failure of the syntactic approach of UDDI. Semantic discovery mech...
There have been significant efforts in providing semantic descriptions for Web services, including the approach as exemplified by OWLS. Part of the semantic description in OWL-S is...
Abstract--In a web service composition, an electronic contract (e-contract) regulates how the services participating in the composition should behave, including the restrictions th...