Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2006: 4th International Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, December 4-7, Proceedings

This volume contains the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Service— Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2006), which took place in Chicago, USA, December 4–7, 2006. ICSOC 2006 followed on the success of three previous editions of the International Conference on Service—Oriented Computing in Amsterdam, Netherlands (2005), New York City, USA (2004) and Trento, Italy (2003). ICSOC is recognized as the main conference for service—oriented computing research that covers the entire spectru...