Web services promise to become a key enabling technology for B2B e-commerce. One of
the most-touted features of Web services is their capability to recursively construct a Web …

Workflow management systems (WfMSs) have been used to support various types of
business processes for more than a decade now. In workflows or Web processes for e …

With a large number of web services offering the same functionality, the Quality of Service
(QoS) rendered by a web service becomes a key differentiator. WS-BPEL has emerged as …

Workflow management systems (WfMSs) have been used to support a variety of business
processes. As organizations adopt new working models, such as e-commerce, new …

Web Services play an important role in the SOA paradigm, as they allow services to be
selected on-the-fly to build applications out of existing components. In this scenario, the …

In recent years, increasing numbers of researchers have concentrated on service workflow
to support cross-domain software development. However, the uncertain characteristics of the …

Workflow management systems (WIMSs) have been used to support various types of
business processes for more than a decade now. In e-commerce processes, suppliers and …

Web Services are emerging technologies that enable application-to-application
communication and reuse of autonomous services over Web. Traditional Workflow …

Abstract Quality of Service (QoS) analysis and prediction for Web service compositions is an
important and challenging issue in distributed computing. In existing work, QoS for service …

The design and implementation of a workflow management system is typically a large and
complex task. Decisions need to be made about the hardware and software platforms, the …