Web Services Research and Practices

by Liang-Jie Zhang (Editor)

Overview

Web services is rapidly becoming one of the most valued aspects of information technology services, as Web-based technological advancements continue to grow at an exponential rate. Web Services Research and Practices provides researchers, scholars, and practitioners in a variety of settings essential up-to-date research in this demanding field, addressing issues such as communication applications using Web services; Semantic services computing; discovery, modeling, performance, and enhancements of Web services; and Web services architecture, frameworks, and security.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781599049045
Publisher:	IGI Global
Publication date:	04/30/2008
Series:	Advances in Web Services Research Series
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 10.20(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Preface     vii
Efficient Encodings for Web Service Messages   Christian Werner   Carsten Buschmann   Stefan Fischer     1
NAM: A Network Adaptable Middleware to Enhance Response Time of Web Services   Shahram Ghandeharizadeh   Christos Papadopoulos   Min Cai   Runfang Zhou   P. Pol     23
Realizability Analysis of Top-Down Web Service Composition Specifications   Xiang Fu   Tevfik Bultan   Jianwen Su     50
Efficient Transport Bindings for Web Service Messages   Christian Werner   Carsten Buschmann   Tobias Jacker   Stefan Fischer     83
A Framework Supporting Context-Aware Multimedia Web Services Delivery   Jia Zhang   Liang-Jie Zhang   Francis Quek   Jen-Yao Chung     110
Adaptive Search- and Learning-Based Approaches for Automatic Web Service Composition   Nikola Milanovic   Miroslaw Malek     135
XWRAPComposer: A Multi-Page Data Extraction Service   Ling Liu   Jianjun Zhang   Wei Han   Calton Pu   James Caverlee   Sungkeun Park   Terence Critchlow   David Buttler   Matthew Coleman     189
An SLA-Based Auction PricingMethod Supporting Web Services Provisioning   Jia Zhang   Ning Zhang   Liang-Jie Zhang     224
Dynamic, Flow Control-Based Information Management for Web Services   Zahir Tarie   Peter Bertok   Dusan Simic     260
Model-Driven Semantic Web Services   Gerald C. Gannod   John T.E. Timm   Raynette J. Brodie     304
About the Contributors     339
Index     344