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 …

In the last years, Web Service composition has undoubtedly become the most promising
way to integrate business-to-business applications. However, the industry and the academia …

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

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 …

Reuse and composition are increasingly advocated and put into practice in modern software
engineering. However, the software entities that are to be reused to build an application, eg …

Business process execution language for Web services (BPEL) is becoming the industrial
standard for modeling Web-service-based business processes. Behavioral compatibility for …

Component-Based Software Engineering focuses on the reuse of existing software
components. In practice, most components cannot be integrated directly into an application …

As systems become more service oriented and processes increasingly cross organizational
boundaries, interaction becomes more important. New technologies support the …

One of the major challenges for European governments is to solve the dilemma of
increasing the security and reducing fraud in international trade, while at the same time …

With the exponential growth of communication and information technologies, adaptation has
gained a significant attention as it becomes a key feature of service-based systems, allowing …