Creating Web processes using Web service technology gives us the opportunity for
selecting new services, which best suit our need at the moment. Doing this automatically …

Composition of Web services is much studied to support business-to-business and
enterprise application integration in e-commerce. Current Web service composition …

In service oriented architectures, complex applications are composed from a variety of
functionally equivalent Web services, which may differ for quality parameters. Under this …

A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable application-to-
application interactions over the Internet. Web services are based on a set of XML …

Service-oriented computing (SOC) has emerged as the eminent market environment for
sharing and reusing service-centric capabilities. The underpinning for an organization's use …

Semantic web service composition is about finding services from a repository that are able to
accomplish a specified task if executed. The task is defined in a form of a composition …

Recently, several languages for Web service composition have emerged (eg, BPEL4WS
and WSCI). The goal of these languages is to glue Web services together in a process …

Web services aim to support efficient integration of applications over Web. Most Web
services are stateful, such as services for business processes, and they converse with each …

This paper presents an approach whose objective is to support Web services substitution.
Substitution means replacing a component with another component, as long as the …

The Web services stack of standards is designed to support the reuse and the interoperation
of software components on the Web. A critical step in the process of developing applications …