Web services are a consolidated reality of the modern Web with tremendous, increasing
impact on everyday computing tasks. They turned the Web into the largest, most accepted …

The increasing tendency of network service users to use cloud computing encourages web
service vendors to supply services that have different functional and nonfunctional (quality of …

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

While mobile applications are becoming so extraordinarily adopted, it is still unclear if they
deserve any specific testing approach for their verification and validation. This paper wants …

In some cases people are interested in certain kinds of networks and want them to be of
small size. Usually these kinds of networks are defined by certain requirements on the …

Recently, cloud manufacturing has attracted much attention from both academic and
industry communities. Manufacturing cloud service composition and optimization is critical to …

Environmental modelling often requires a long iterative process of sourcing, reformatting,
analyzing, and introducing various types of data into the model. Much of the data to be …

A novel optimisation technique inspired by natural ecosystems is presented, where the
optimisation works at two levels: a first optimisation, migration of services which are …

Generally, cloud computing consists of providing virtualized and scalable resources as
services through the Internet dynamically. According to the costumers' requests, various …

Automatic Web Service composition is gaining momentum as the potential silver bullet in
Service Oriented Architecture. The need for interservice compatibility analysis and indirect …