Web Services for Automated Fault Analysis (WS-AFA) in Electrical Power System are described in this paper. WS-AFA is a new Information Technology solution for automated investigation and analysis of fault and disturbance records obtained from Digital Fault Recorders (DFRs) or other Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) in substations. The paper describes the overall system architecture as well ...

This paper presents an ontology-based approach for the specification (using OWL-C as a definition language) and reconciliation (using ConWeS as a mediation tool) of contexts of Web services. Web services are independent components that can be triggered and composed for the satisfaction of user needs (e.g., hotel booking). Because Web services originate from different providers, their compositio...

Session-layer services for enhancing functionality and improving network performance are gaining in importance in the Internet. Examples of such services include connection multiplexing, congestion state sharing, application-level routing, mobility/migration support, and encryption. This paper describes TESLA, a transparent and extensible framework allowing sessionlayer services to be developed...

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This project investigates, implements and evaluates tool support for analysis of SOA-Based service contracts using Model Checking. The specification language for the contract is Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). It captures the behavior of services and allows developers to compose services without dependence on any particular implementation technology. A behavior specification is extr...

Powerful computers and affordable digital media appliances result in a rapid growth of possibilities in the field of multimedia applications. There has been a significant increase in creation and use of multimedia content. Nowadays everybody can be treated as a potential creator and user of multimedia content. In order to deliver multimedia services to end-users, many parties are integrated and...

This paper tackles the problem of composition of transaction services, which are governed by various transaction standards. Among others, we can cite the Object Transaction Service, Java Transaction Service, or Web Services Atomic Transaction. However, the Web Services Atomic Transaction standard encloses legacy transaction standards to support the Web Services application platform. This encaps...

Many value-added and content delivery services are being offered via service level agreements (SLAs). These services can be interconnected to form a service overlay network (SON) over the Internet. Service composition in SON has emerged as a cost-effective approach to quickly creating new services. Previous research has addressed the reliability, adaptability, and compatibility issues for compo...

Web services (also called simply services) are self-describing, platform-agnostic computational elements that support rapid, lowcost and easy composition of loosely coupled distributed applications. From a technical standpoint, Web services are modular applications that can be described, published, located, invoked and composed over a variety of networks (including the Internet): any piece of c...

With the advent of Web Services, more and more business organizations make their services available on the Internet through Web Services and also use other services that are available on the corporate Intranet. From the viewpoint of workflow systems, these freely available Web Services and the proprietary intranet-based services should be integrated into individual businesses for their day-to-d...