Abstract Service-oriented computing (SOC) represents a paradigm for building distributed
computing applications over the Internet. In the past decade, Web services composition has …

Service-based systems that are dynamically composed at runtime to provide complex,
adaptive functionality are currently one of the main development paradigms in software …

QoS-aware dynamic binding of composite services provides the capability of binding each
service invocation in a composition to a service chosen among a set of functionally …

Future software systems will operate in a highly dynamic world. Systems will need to operate
correctly despite of unespected changes in factors such as environmental conditions, user …

Architecting software systems according to the service-oriented paradigm and designing
runtime self-adaptable systems are two relevant research areas in today's software …

Planning is motivated by acting. Most of the existing work on automated planning
underestimates the reasoning and deliberation needed for acting; it is instead biased …

Web services run in complex contexts where arising events may compromise the quality of
the whole system. Thus, it is desirable to count on autonomic mechanisms to guide the self …

Modern software systems are increasingly embedded in an open world that is constantly
evolving, because of changes in the requirements, in the surrounding environment, and in …

In an environment of constant change and variation driven by competition and innovation, a
software service can rarely remain stable. Being able to manage and control the evolution of …

Graphs are important structures in mathematics, computer science and several other
research and application areas. The concepts of graph transformation and graph grammars …