Abstract. The use of XML as a format for message exchange makes Web services well suited for composition of heterogeneous components. However, since clients must manage differences...
Many authorities have started to use web sites to provide services based on transactions. The guiding vision is often a process portal for citizens that provides access to the cou...
When having repeated interactions with a service provider, a service consumer might desire guarantees on the delivery of the service. These guarantees involve both functional and n...
Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) have recently emerged as a new promising paradigm for supporting distributed computing. Web services, as well as integration-packages relying ...
Configurable business software solutions are increasingly being implemented based on service oriented architectures (SOA). Hereunto model driven approaches for the definition and i...