The Internet is revolutionizing business by providing an affordable and efficient way to link
companies with their partners as well as customers. Nevertheless, there are problems that …

Abstract In today's Web, Web services are created and updated on the fly. It's already
beyond the human ability to analysis them and generate the composition plan manually. A …

The Internet is going through several major changes. It has become a vehicle of Web
services rather than just a repository of information. Many organizations are putting their …

Service composition is gaining momentum as the potential silver bullet for the envisioned
Semantic Web. It purports to take the Web to unexplored efficiencies and provide a flexible …

Self-Serv aims to enable the declarative composition of new services from existing ones, the
multiattribute dynamic selection of services within a composition, and peer-to-peer …

A proper understanding of the general nature, potential and obligations of electronic
services may be achieved by examining existing commercial services in detail. The …

The main focus of this paper is on automatic e-Service composition. We start by developing
a framework in which the exported behavior of an e-Service is described in terms of its …

The development of new services through the integration of existing ones has gained a
considerable momentum as a means to create and streamline business-to-business …

As an essential element in the overall designing of a service system, service planning plays
an important role in improving final service quality and user experience. Service planning is …

The automatic discovery and composition of Web services rely on the facilities offered by the
providers of services in describing the functionalities of their services semantically and on …