To make Web services recommend the peers with whom they would like to collaborate in
case of compositions, recommend the peers that can substitute for them in case of failure …

This paper motivates the blend of social computing with service-oriented computing, giving
“birth” to social Web services. On the one hand, social computing builds user applications …

Service engineers often struggle to locate the relevant Web services needed to satisfy users'
requests. The authors describe how service engineers can capitalize on Web services' …

This paper discusses a framework to manage Web services using the concept of community
and the metaphor of social networking. On the one hand, a community gathers Web services …

Social computing is perceived mainly as a vehicle for establishing and maintaining private
relationships and thus lacks mainstream adoption in enterprises. Collaborative computing …

In service-oriented computing, multiple services often exist to perform similar functions. In
these situations, it is essential to have good ways for qualitatively ranking the services. In …

The emergence of service-oriented computing as a key-enabler of web applications and the
subsequent increase in the web services available, has brought to the surface a major …

With the emergence of Web 2.0 and the related technologies, composing services has left
the traditional frontiers of enterprises. In fact, end-users need to use a certain kind of …

In this paper, we present the concept of web service ranking: a service rank is a quantitative
metric that in some way shows the “importance” of a service within a web service network …

Current e-service selection relies upon service registries to make recommendations. It is
almost impossible to capture and make use of valuable personal service evaluations, e …