As the World Wide Web has grown, it has been a challenge to allow meaningful understanding of content on the web. To face this challenge, several technologies and initiatives have been introduced under the umbrella of web services such as SOAP, which is used to exchange information between web services, and UDDI which provides discovery services. Additionally, the semantic web has also been pro...

Web Services standard has been broadly acknowledged by industries and academic researches along with the progress of web technology and e-business. Increasing number of web applications have been bundled as web services that can be published, positioned and invoked across the web. The importance of the issues regarding their publication and innovation attains a maximum as web services multiply ...

Two of the factors that lead the continuous growth of the internet are the evolution of the available products, from a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet, and the increasing popularity of heterogeneous computer receiving devices, such as palmtops and handheld computers. Thus, interoperability in Internet environments becomes the main techn...

Grid environment is a service oriented infrastructure in which many heterogeneous resources participate to provide the high performance computation. One of the bug issues in the grid environment is the vagueness and uncertainty between advertised resources and requested resources. Furthermore, in an environment such as grid dynamicity is considered as a crucial issue which must be dealt with. C...

Web services are interoperable (software) components that can be used in application integration and component-based application development. This paper analyses possible contributions of the emerging Web service architecture to settle open issues that both application integration as well as component-based application development have in common and thereby focuses on the specification of compo...

With the growing demand on Web Services, self-adaptation in the highly-dynamic environment is becoming a key capability of service-based systems. As a solution for Web services to provide added value and high QoS, combining self-* and policies allows reducing management complexity and effectively drives adaptation. Also, providers must participate in the self-adaptation process as they are awar...

Web services, the key technology indispensable for e-business, is a comprehensible service providing the desired information or service in the same environment regardless of time and place by integrating current application systems within a single business or between multiple businesses with standardized technologies through the open network using the Internet. However the current web services ...

In this paper, we introduce a vision for Semantic Web services which combines the growing Web services architecture and the Semantic Web and we will propose DAML-S as a prototypical example of an ontology for describing Semantic Web services. Furthermore, we show that DAML-S is not just an abstract description, but it can be efficiently implemented to support capability matching and to manage i...

−The ability for software agents to discover, query, and task ubiquitous sensors requires machineinterpretable service descriptions, such as those proposed by the Semantic Web effort. Descriptions that support deep semantics will enable on-the-fly utilization of sensors for applications that might not have been anticipated on initial deployment. Semantic Web service discovery and dynamic compos...