Mediation Spaces for Similarity-Based Semantic Web Services Selection
Semantic Web Services SWS aim at the automated discovery, selection and orchestration of Web services based on comprehensive, machine-interpretable semantic descriptions. The latter are, in principle, deployed by multiple possible actors i.e., service ...
Automatic Determination of Compatibility in Evolving Services
A major advantage of Service-Oriented Architectures SOA is composition and coordination of loosely coupled services. Because the development lifecycles of services and clients are de-coupled, multiple service versions must be maintained to support older ...
On Utilizing Web Service Equivalence for Supporting the Composition Life Cycle
Deciding on Web service equivalence in process-aware service compositions is a crucial challenge throughout the composition life cycle. However, restricting such decisions to activity label equivalence is not sufficient for many practical applications: ...
Reducing User Perceived Latency with a Proactive Prefetching Middleware for Mobile SOA Access
Network latency is one of the most critical factors for the usability of mobile SOA applications. This paper introduces prefetching and caching enhancements for an existing SOA framework for mobile applications to reduce the user perceived latency. ...