: With the ever-growing availability of so-called complex data, especially on the Web, decision-support systems such as data warehouses must store and process data that are not onl...
Web Services-based business processes spread over the boundaries of companies, requiring the integration of customers, suppliers and partners to achieve inter-organizational busine...
—Web service paradigm and related technologies have provided favorable means for the realization of collaborative business processes. From both conceptual and implementation poin...
The integration of four design attributes (componentcost, quality, function, and technology) streamlines product design by providing a multilateral view to designers that leads to...
Data-Providing (DP) services allow query-like access to organizations' data via web services. The invocation of a DP service results in the execution of a query over data sour...