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Semantic Web Service Composition: The Web Service Challenge Perspective
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a software design paradigm for creating highly modular, distributed applications. Web services can implement well-defined, atomic functions which can be composed into hig...
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Static Detection of Implementation Errors Using Formal Code Specification
The software engineering community suggests that formal specification of source code facilitates the verification that can help to identify hidden functional errors. In this work, we investigate the impact of ...
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Engineering Energy-Aware Web Services toward Dynamically-Green Computing
With the emergence of commodity computing environments (i.e. clouds), information technology (IT) infrastructure providers are creating data centers in distributed geographical regions. Since geographic region...
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Introduction
This introduction will provide the necessary background on Semantic Web Services and their evaluation. It will then introduce SWS evaluation goals, dimensions and criteria and compare the existing community ef...
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Overview of theWeb Services Challenge (WSC): Discovery and Composition of SemanticWeb Services
The capabilities of organizations can be openly exposed, easily searched and discovered, and made readily-accessible to humans and particularly to machines, using service-oriented computing approaches. Artific...
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A Reusable Model for Data-Centric Web Services
Service-oriented computing (SoC) promotes a paradigm where enterprise applications can be transformed into reusable, network-accessible software modules or services (i.e. Web services). In many cases, existing...
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Using Naming Tendencies to Syntactically Link Web Service Messages
Service-oriented computing (SOC) enables organizations and individual users to discover openly-accessible capabilities realized as services over the Internet. An important issue is the management of the messag...
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Object-Oriented Modeling Approaches to Agent-Based Workflow Services
With the increasing popularity of component-based services and semantic web services, the idea of specification-driven service composition is becoming a reality. With the distribution of these autonomous servi...
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Using Agent Control and Communication in a Distributed Workflow Information System
Agent communication has developed widely over the past decade for various types of multiple agent environments. Originally, most of this research surrounded simulation systems and inference systems. Subsequent...