Ebook: Web Services Foundations

Web services and Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) have become thriving areas of academic research, joint university/industry research projects, and novel IT products on the market. SOC is the computing paradigm that uses Web services as building blocks for the engineering of composite, distributed applications out of the reusable application logic encapsulated by Web services. Web services could be considered the best-known and most standardized technology in use today for distributed computing over the Internet. Web Services Foundations is the first installment of a two-book collection covering the state-of-the-art of both theoretical and practical aspects of Web services and SOC research. This book specifically focuses on the foundations of Web services and SOC and covers - among others - Web service composition, non-functional aspects of Web services, Web service selection and recommendation, and assisted Web service composition. The editors collect advanced topics in the second book of the collection, Advanced Web Services, (Springer, 2013). Both books together comprise approximately 1400 pages and are the result of an enormous community effort that involved more than 100 authors, comprising the world’s leading experts in this field.

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Web services and Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) have become thriving areas of academic research, joint university/industry research projects, and novel IT products on the market. SOC is the computing paradigm that uses Web services as building blocks for the engineering of composite, distributed applications out of the reusable application logic encapsulated by Web services. Web services could be considered the best-known and most standardized technology in use today for distributed computing over the Internet. Web Services Foundations is the first installment of a two-book collection covering the state-of-the-art of both theoretical and practical aspects of Web services and SOC research. This book specifically focuses on the foundations of Web services and SOC and covers - among others - Web service composition, non-functional aspects of Web services, Web service selection and recommendation, and assisted Web service composition. The editors collect advanced topics in the second book of the collection, Advanced Web Services, (Springer, 2013). Both books together comprise approximately 1400 pages and are the result of an enormous community effort that involved more than 100 authors, comprising the world’s leading experts in this field.

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Web services and Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) have become thriving areas of academic research, joint university/industry research projects, and novel IT products on the market. SOC is the computing paradigm that uses Web services as building blocks for the engineering of composite, distributed applications out of the reusable application logic encapsulated by Web services. Web services could be considered the best-known and most standardized technology in use today for distributed computing over the Internet. Web Services Foundations is the first installment of a two-book collection covering the state-of-the-art of both theoretical and practical aspects of Web services and SOC research. This book specifically focuses on the foundations of Web services and SOC and covers - among others - Web service composition, non-functional aspects of Web services, Web service selection and recommendation, and assisted Web service composition. The editors collect advanced topics in the second book of the collection, Advanced Web Services, (Springer, 2013). Both books together comprise approximately 1400 pages and are the result of an enormous community effort that involved more than 100 authors, comprising the world’s leading experts in this field.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Web Services and Business Processes: A Round Trip....Pages 3-29
RESTful Web Services: Principles, Patterns, Emerging Technologies....Pages 31-51
Conceptual Design of Sound, Custom Composition Languages....Pages 53-79
From Artifacts to Activities....Pages 81-107
On the Composability of Semantic Web Services....Pages 109-135
Semantic Web Service Composition: The Web Service Challenge Perspective....Pages 137-160
Automated Service Composition Based on Behaviors: The Roman Model....Pages 161-187
Behavioral Service Substitution....Pages 189-214
Web Service Adaptation: Mismatch Patterns and Semi-Automated Approach to Mismatch Identification and Adapter Development....Pages 215-244
Transformation Framework for Consistent Evolution of UML Behavioral Elements into BPMN Design Element....Pages 245-272
Context-Aware Services Engineering for Service-Oriented Architectures....Pages 273-289
Front Matter....Pages 291-317
Service Selection in Web Service Composition: A Comparative Review of Existing Approaches....Pages 319-319
QoS Analysis in Service Oriented Computing....Pages 321-346
QoS-based Service Selection....Pages 347-373
Composition of Web Services: From Qualitative to Quantitative Timed Properties....Pages 375-397
Adaptive Composition and QoS Optimization of Conversational Services Through Graph Planning Encoding....Pages 399-422
Automated Negotiation Among Web services....Pages 423-449
DRAAS: Dynamically Reconfigurable Architecture for Autonomic Services....Pages 451-482
Comprehensive Variability Modeling and Management for Customizable Process-Based Service Compositions....Pages 483-505
Front Matter....Pages 507-533
Software Product Line Engineering to Develop Variant-Rich Web Services....Pages 319-319
QoS-Aware Web Service Recommendation via Collaborative Filtering....Pages 535-562
On Bootstrapping Web Service Recommendation....Pages 563-588
An Approach for Service Discovery and Recommendation Using Contexts....Pages 589-608
Data Transformation Knowledge Reuse in Spreadsheet-Based Mashup Development Platform....Pages 609-633
A Unified RGPS-Based Approach Supporting Service-Oriented Process Customization....Pages 635-656
Assisted Mashup Development: On the Discovery and Recommendation of Mashup Composition Knowledge....Pages 657-682
End Users Developing Mashups....Pages 683-708
Back Matter....Pages 709-736
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