Recent technology trends in the Web Services (WS) domain indicate that a solution
eliminating the presumed complexity of the WS-* standards may be in sight: advocates of …

Ubiquitous computing embeds computer technology in our everyday environment, providing
a human with information services and applications through any device over different kinds …

Current Web service technology is evolving towards a simpler approach to define Web
service APIs that challenges the assumptions made by existing languages for Web service …

It has often been argued that Web services would have a tremendous impact on the Web, as
a core enabling technology supporting a highly efficient service-based economy at a global …

The integration of external tools in Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) aims at enriching
the learning activities that educational practitioners may design and enact. This paper …

Novel trends in Web services technology challenge the assumptions made by current
standards for process-based service composition. Most RESTful Web service APIs, which do …

With the growing popularity of information and communications technologies and
information sharing and integration, cities are evolving into large interconnected ecosystems …

Architecting service-oriented systems is a complex design activity. It involves making trade-
offs among a number of interdependent design decisions, which are drawn from a range of …

Service‐orientation is an approach to developing software by combining reusable and
possibly distributed components called services []. Since it was first proposed, there has …

During the past decade a number of procedure-oriented protocols and standards have
emerged for making service-offering systems available on the Web. The WS-* stack of …