Service-Oriented Computing promotes building applications by consuming and reusing Web Services. However, the selection of adequate Web Services given a client application is still a major challenge. The effort of assessing ...

The Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm has recently gained a lot of attention in the software industry, since SOC represents a novel and a fresh way of architecting distributed applications. SOC is usually materialized ...

Web Service standards and ontologies represent the basic blocks forbuilding a world-wide network of computer-understandable resources.The process of linking Web Services to ontologies, a.k.a. annotation, hasbeen identified ...

The Service Oriented Computing paradigm and its most popular implementation, namely Web Services, are at the crossing of distributed computing and loosely coupled systems. Web Services can be discovered and reused dynamically ...

The Service-Oriented Computing paradigm enables the construction of distributed systems by assembling loosely coupled pieces of software called services, which have clear interfaces to their functionalities. Service interface ...