Agent Based Web Services Market (AWSM) is a framework for agents to present and sell their capabilities as web services. Agents take certain roles and cooperate to constitute agent...
Web Services provide standardized interfaces for accessing software systems and data sources over the Internet. Semantic descriptions of Web Services help to automate the discovery...
Abstract. In the service-oriented computing paradigm and the Web service architecture, the broker role is a key facilitator to leverage technical capabilities of loose coupling to ...
—The Web Service Description Language defines a service as a procedure whose inputs and outputs are structured XML data values, sometimes called documents. In this paper we argu...
Ali Ibrahim, Marc Fisher II, William R. Cook, Eli ...
Although Web services are intended for short term, ad hoc collaborations, in practice many Web service compositions are offered longterm to customers. While the Web services makin...
Lianne Bodenstaff, Andreas Wombacher, Manfred Reic...
Business workflows implemented as BPEL processes play an important role for many business applications. BPEL is used to orchestrate a series of Web service calls. Which provider ...
—A web service may evolve autonomously, making peer web services in the same service composition uncertain as to whether the evolved behaviors may still be compatible to its orig...
Lijun Mei, W. K. Chan, T. H. Tse, Robert G. Merkel
—The goal of the Web Service Composition (WSC) problem is to find an optimal composition of web services to satisfy a given request using their syntactic and/or semantic feature...
Web services have emerged as a de facto standard for encapsulating services within or across organization boundaries. Various proposals have been made to compose Web services into...
This paper introduces a novel approach for modelling and specifying behaviors of Web services. This approach excludes Web services from any composition scenario and sheds the ligh...
Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Hamdi Yahyaoui, Jam...