Web services are dominating the current web scenario. Web services are independent and autonomous, designed to perform a specific task. Discovery, integration and execution of web services is known as semantic web. Composition of these web services are required complex system. The Composition of semantic Web services (SWS) has received much interest to support business-tobusiness or enterprise ...

Web Services are mounting as an inventive mechanism for rendering services to subjective devices over the WWW. As a consequence of the rapid growth of Web Services applications and the plenty of Service Providers, the consumer is facing with the inevitability of selecting the “right” Service Provider. In such a scenario the Quality of Service (QoS) serves as a target to differentiate Service Pr...

Web services selection aims to choose an appropriate web service among a number of service candidates. The trustworthiness of web services is an important metric for web services selection. Many trustworthiness based web services selecting methods have been proposed in the academic community. However, the fidelity of web service's supporting websites (e.g. the websites providing the service, or...

Composition of web services is a prominent feature of Service Oriented Architecture, for implementing business processes. Business processes may collaborate within or across organizations. During cross organizational collaborations, services are often heterogeneous thereby bringing challenges to composition. The two most popular types of web services are SOAP based web services and RESTful web ...

Web services technologies change the software industry drastically by developing and integrating enterprise web services and applications in order to enable the users to access them. There are several research initiatives in the field of Web services for enterprise applications. However, none of the initiatives have attempted for web applications pertaining to academic institution using Web ser...

Web services are playing a pivotal role in e-business, service intelligence, service science and information systems. This article will examine how the main players make decisions for activities in web service lifecycle (WSLC) and propose a holistic model for decision making in web services. More specifically, this article first examines main players in web services. It also reviews the existin...