Web service composition, ie, WSC, has emerged as a promising way to integrate various
distributed computing resources for complex application requirements. However, much …

Service selection is a key issue in the Future Internet, where applications are built by
composing services and content offered by different service providers. Most existing service …

With the increasing popularity of using Web services, Quality of Service (QoS) is becoming a
significant concern for both service consumers and providers. Several models for …

In service selection, an end user often has his or her personal preferences imposing on a
candidate service's non-functional properties. For a service selection process promoted by a …

In the last decades, development turned from monolithic software products towards more
flexible software components that can be provided on world-wide markets in form of …

Web services have emerged as the building blocks of a service-oriented architecture that
supports not only enterprise application integration (EAI) and business process …

To gain and retain competitive advantages in a competitive business arena, a business
cloud-computing platform should continuously strive to offer new services and remain …

Drafting a formal or semi-formal model describing the functional requirements of a system
from a textual specification is a prerequisite in the context of a model-driven engineering …

Traditionally, service discovery is often promoted by the centralized approach that typically
suffers from single point of failure, poor reliability, poor scalability, to name a few. In view of …

Service composition has the capability of constructing coarse-grained solutions by
dynamically aggregating a set of services to satisfy complex requirements, but it suffers from …