Services can be characterized as activities in which providers and customers co-create value. The need for a tight collaboration between providers and customers is thus an importa...
This paper describes the development and use of an extensible service provider toolkit (ESP) for an Earth Science service-oriented architecture (SOA). Grid-enabled Earth Science a...
Current Web services composition proposals, such as BPML, BPEL, WSCI, and OWL-S, provide notations for describing the control and data flows in Web service collaborations. However...
This paper is concerned with the application of Web services to distributed, cross-organizational business processes. In this scenario, it is crucial to answer the following questi...
Abstract. Web services have become the predominant paradigm for the development of distributed software systems. Web services provide the means to modularize software in a way that...