The rapid evolution of the web has affected the way under which the manufacturing process is practised. In this paper, a web based framework – independent from any specific CAD/CAM software – is proposed, for employing electronic interaction between designers and manufacturers. In this context, designers and manufacturers communicate for the manufacturing of a workpiece, under a platform-indepe...

Service Oriented Architectures enable a multitude of Web services to provide loosely coupled and interoperable services at different Quality of Service level in the recent few years. Dynamic Web services composition offers the opportunity for creating new web services at runtime from those already published in UDDI registry. However, this composition requires necessarily quantifying criteria fo...

In both e-business and e-science, we often need to integrate services across distributed, heterogeneous, dynamic “virtual organizations” formed from the disparate resources within a single enterprise and/or from external resource sharing and service provider relationships. This integration is technically challenging because of the need to achieve various levels of quality of service (QoS) when ...

In this paper, we present a fine-grained matching method of the services based on a hybrid similarity measure. We propose a novel encoding of the services descriptions, allowing the match between a request and an advertisement in order to make more efficient publishing and searching process of Web services and reduce the number of comparisons required. By this kind of similarity between concept...

Web services are currently one of the main technologies employed to create a systematic and extensible framework for application development. However, due to the large number of web services that exist nowadays, locating one or several web services to fulfil the functional requirements of a user or an organisation, is a complex and time consuming activity for application developers, also reduci...

The concept of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) is the latest design paradigm for IT systems. The aim is to use Web services as the basic building blocks, which provide reusable functionalities that are invocable of the Internet. The initial Web service technology stack around WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI allows to technically realize the provision and usage of Web services. However, the support fo...

Matching descriptions of user requirements against descriptions of service capabilities is crucial for the discovery of appropriate services for a given task. To improve the precision of approaches that consider only syntactical aspects of matchmaking (e.g. UDDI) several approaches for semantic matchmaking have been proposed. We compare two approaches with respect to their potentials for matchm...

The potential of a large-scale growth of private and semi-private registries is creating the need for an infrastructure that can support discovery and publication over a group of autonomous registries. Recent versions of UDDI have made changes to accommodate interactions between distributed registries. In this paper, we discuss an ontology-based Web service discovery infrastructure (METEOR-S We...

The demand for distributed applications has been increasing since the birth of internet. It has scaled geographical areas in search of information and computational resources for processing. With the advent of Grid computing, ad-hoc Virtual Organizations have added an impetus towards distributed applications by providing on-demand service provisioning. The use of job-based paradigms and strong ...

Web Services are loosely coupled modular HTTP-based applications that represent a new approach for application integration. The reusability of web services is making them an attractive solution for businesses and consumers alike because of their simplicity and accessibility. Today’s web services are designed to be modular and loosely-coupled to perform a specific set of operations. This modular...