Web service composition has been the subject of a number of standardisation initiatives.
These initiatives have met various difficulties and had mixed degrees of success, and none …

Different planning techniques have been applied to the problem of automated composition
of web services. However, in realistic cases, this planning problem is far from trivial: the …

This paper addresses the issue of automatic service composition. We first develop a
framework in which the exported behavior of a service is described in terms of a so-called …

The service-oriented paradigm promises a novel degree of interoperability between
business processes, and is leading to a major shift in way distributed applications are …

We propose a novel planning framework for the automated composition of web services. We
consider services that are specified and implemented in industrial standard languages for …

The paper presents an integrated approach for automated semantic web service
composition using AI planning techniques. An important advantage of this approach is that …

An architectural approach to self-adaptive systems involves runtime change of system
configuration (ie, the system's components, their bindings and operational parameters) and …

In today's knowledge-, service-, and cloud-based economy, businesses accumulate massive
amounts of data from a variety of sources. In order to understand businesses one may need …

The execution of a business process (BP) in today's enterprises may involve a workflow and
multiple IT systems and services. Often no complete, up-to-date documentation of the model …

Distributed information infrastructures are increasingly used in the geospatial domain. In the
infrastructures, data are being collected by distributed sensor services, served by distributed …