Web services are new forms of Internet software that can be universally deployed and
invoked using standard protocols. Services from different providers can be integrated into a …

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides a flexible framework for service composition.
Using standard-based protocols (such as SOAP and WSDL), composite services can be …

QoS-based service selection aims at finding the best component services that satisfy the end-
to-end quality requirements. The problem can be modeled as a multi-dimension multi-choice …

One of the promises of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) is that complex services can
be composed using individual services. Individual services can be selected and integrated …

The run-time binding of web services has been recently put forward in order to support rapid
and dynamic web service compositions. With the growing number of alternative web …

A composition arranges available services resulting in a defined flow of executions. Before
the composition is carried out, a discovery service identifies candidate services. Then, a …

Dynamic selection of Web services at runtime is important for building flexible and loosely-
coupled service-oriented applications. An abstract description of the required services is …

CONTEXT: Web Services are emerging technologies that enable application to application
communication and reuse of autonomous services over Web. Composition of web services …

Web services can be specified from two perspectives, namely functional and non-functional
properties. Multiple services may possess the same function while vary in their non …

Abstract In Service Oriented systems, complex applications can be composed from a variety
of functionally equivalent Web services which may differ for quality parameters. Under this …