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

Enabling Flexibility in Process-Aware Information Systems: Challenges, Methods, Technologies
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The paradigmatic shift from a Web of manual interactions to a Web of programmatic
interactions driven by Web services is creating unprecedented opportunities for the …

In previous chapters we have discussed the architecture of information systems (Chapter 1),
middleware and enterprise application integration (Chapters 2 and 3), and the basics of …

Web services are rapidly changing the landscape of software engineering. One of the most
interesting challenges introduced by web services is represented by Quality Of Service …

The run-time binding of web services has been recently put forward in order to support rapid
and dynamic web service compositions. With the growing number of alternative web …

Due to the web services' heterogeneous nature, which stems from the definition of several
XML-based standards to overcome platform and language dependence, web services have …

Web services will transform the web from a collection of information into a distributed
computational device. In order to employ their full potential, appropriate description means …

Dynamic selection of Web services at runtime is important for building flexible and loosely-
coupled service-oriented applications. An abstract description of the required services is …

Web service composition refers to the creation of new (Web) services by combining
functionalities provided by existing ones. A number of domain-specific languages for service …