The web services (WS) technology provides a comprehensive solution for representing,
discovering, and invoking services in a wide variety of environments, including Service …

As Web services become more prevalent, the need to ensure their quality increases. This
paper explores the criteria of reliability of Web services-oriented systems, and discusses …

XML document comparison is becoming an ever more popular research issue due to the
increasingly abundant use of XML. Likewise, a growing interest fosters the development of …

We introduce Web Service Slicing, a technique that captures a functional subset of a large-
scale web service using an interface slice captured as a WSDL slice (a subset of a service's …

Although smartphone applications represent the most typical data consumer tool from the
citizen perspective in environmental applications, they can also be used for in-situ data …

Comparing XML documents with XML grammars, also known as XML document and
grammar validation, is useful in various applications such as: XML document classification …

In environments with limited network bandwidth or resource-constrained computing devices
the high amount of protocol overhead caused by SOAP is disadvantageous. Therefore …

Web Services technology provided several advantages over other technologies, however it
still has serious limitations, including high latency and high protocol overhead. To improve …

The Web services technology has received significant momentum in recent years, because it
allows people to easily utilize and integrate existing software applications to rapidly create …

Although Web service technology is being used in more and more distributed systems, its
areas of application are inherently limited by high latencies and high amounts of protocol …