The vast increase of pertinent information available to drug discovery scientists means that there is a strong demand for tools and techniques for organizing and intelligently mining this information for manageable human consumption. At Indiana University, we have developed an infrastructure of chemoinformatics Web services that simplifies the access to this information and the computational te...

There is a lack of meaningful description of Web Services in UDDI, however, it is necessary for automatic services discovery. In this paper, a language is proposed for semantics description of Web Services which complements the UDDI standards to derive relationships among Web Services. The semantics description can be used to automatically derive relationships among Web Services. We describe ho...

Service discovery can be greatly enhanced in terms of efficiency, both regarding service discoverability and energy consumption, by piggybacking service information into routing messages. Thus, service discovery does not generate additional messages and a node requesting a service, in addition to discovering that service, it is simultaneously informed of the route to the service provider. We ex...

Recent advances have enabled provision and consumption of mobile services by small handheld devices. These devices have limited capability in terms of processing ability, storage space, battery life, network connectivity and bandwidth, which presents new challenges for service discovery architectures. As a result, there is an increased imperative to provide service requesters with services whic...

Pervasive services accomplish tasks that are related with common tasks in the life of the user such as paying for parking or buying a bus ticket. These services are often closely related to a specific location and to the situation of the user; and they are not characterized by a strong notion of goal that must be achieved as part of a much broader plan, but they are used to address the continge...

Emerging technologies and industrial standards in the field of Web services enable a much faster and easier cooperation of distributed partners. With the increasing number of enterprises that offer specific functionality in terms of Web services, discovery of matching partners becomes a serious issue. At the moment, discovery of Web services generally is based on meta-information (e. g. name, b...

Registries play a key role in service-oriented applications. Originally, they were neutral players between service providers and clients. The UDDI Business Registry (UBR) was meant to foster these concepts and provide a common reference for companies interested in Web services. The more Web services were used, the more companies started create their own “local” registries: more efficient discov...

In large-scale open environments mechanisms for locating appropriate services have to deal with the additional problem of semantic mismatches among the components. Semantic alignment mechanisms need to be purposefully integrated into a service discovery framework in order to fully exploit its potential. The objective of this paper is to present an ongoing work towards the analysis and design of...

In this paper, we propose the integration of services into social networks (SOAF Service of a Friend) to leverage the creation of the Internet of Services vision. We show how to integrate services and humans into a common network structure and discuss design and implementation issues. In particular, we discuss the required extensions to existing social network vocabulary with regard to services...

Service adaptation allows two services to interact properly using a mediator or adapter. In service discovery one question is whether an adaptable service exists for a given service, i. e. whether a service exists which can be interacted with properly by using an adapter. We look at a setting where this question boils down to deciding distributed controllability, and we present an idea for chan...