Nowadays, Web services (WS) remain a main actor in the implementation of distributed applications. They represent a new promising paradigm for the development, deployment and integration of Internet applications. The aim of Web services composition is to use the skills of several departments to resolve any problem that cannot be solved individually. The result of this composition is a compound ...

This work proposes an initial model for the automatic composition of Grid based learning services based on the semantic capabilities and metadata of e-learning frameworks. There are three principal motivations for Learning Grid Services Composition: build a more powerful service using basic existing services, fulfill service requester’s requirement better, and enhance resource reuse while reduc...

Large-scale, value-added Internet services composed of independent cooperating or competing services will soon become common place. Several groups have addressed the performance, communication, discovery, and description aspects of these services. However, little work has been done on effectively composing paid services and the quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees that they provide. We address t...

This paper presents the SWFL workflow engine, a general workflow framework that meets the needs of business processes as well as scientific computing processes with fine multi-level parallelism supports. The workflow description language, SWFL, follows a graph-oriented model to specify workflow processes composed of services. The workflow engine provides an efficient enactment environment for S...

Travel lights are more and more popular. Many residents and travelers enjoy traveling using bikes in Taiwan. Hence, this study designs a Cloud-based Bike-fleet POI Touring Service Platform, which is called C-BOOST, to help people make travel plans. C-BOOST is composed of Bikers and a Cloud-based Digital Convergence Server (CDCS). Bikers can use a smart-phone to get potential Point of Interests ...

With the rapid development of information technology, it is inevitable that the distributed mobile computing will evolve to the pervasive computing gradually whose final goal is fusing the information space composed of computers with the physical space in which the people are working and living in. Furthermore, with the development of SOA, more and more pervasive applications have been composed...

The visualisation strand of the e-Demand project is working to distribute the visualisation pipeline across the Grid, allowing visualisations to be composed as needed. The traditional visualisation pipeline concept is maintained by providing an ability to divide a visualisation into its component parts and then built upon by allowing each of these parts to be deployed on an appropriate grid res...

With the rapid development of information technology, it is inevitable for the distributed mobile computing will evolve to the pervasive computing gradually and whose final goal is fusing the information space composed of computers with the physical space in which the people are working and living in. Furthermore, with the development of SOA, more and more pervasive applications have been compo...

One fundamental issue in service-oriented computing concerns the question whether services can be composed in a manner that allows them to achieve their individual goals. In this paper we use a variant of interface automata as an abstraction of the input/output behaviour of services, which are themselves represented as terms in the π-calculus extended with an action for expressing service colla...

This paper 1 describes a holistic approach towards the deployment and runtime management of services on active network nodes taken by the FAIN project. Both the underlying service model and the architectures supporting deployment and management are component oriented. The separation of service meta-information and implementation code allows for a very flexible way of service deployment manageme...