Web Services – ICWS-Europe 2003

Liang-Jie Zhang, Mario Jeckle (auth.), Mario Jeckle, Liang-Jie Zhang (eds.)3540201254

After some time of early experience Web Services are moving themselves from a new highly fragmented technology to a piece of nowadays infrastructures which promise to address various current challenges. These include especially classical issues of integration and data in a heterogeneous environment. The Web Service technology provides an open and technology-agnostic interface, and furthermore propels new usage paradigms in distributed computing infrastructures like Grid Services. Successful adoption of Web Service technology relies on the de?nition of interoperable architectural building blocks which can be integrated in existing softwarearchitectures,likeJ2EEorCORBAheritage. Interoperabilitywillsurely proveitselfasthecriticalsuccessfactoroftheWebServiceproliferation. Inorder to accomplish these interoperability various standardization bodies such as the W3C, UN or OASIS founded activities to create speci?cations and products implementing these building blocks. As the sister event of the First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2003), which was held in Las Vegas, June 23 – 26, USA, has proven to be an excellent catalyst for research and collaboration, the 2003 International C- ference on Web Services – Europe (ICWS-Europe 2003) is expected to continue this trend. The topics of papers collected in this proceedings volume ranges from issues like modeling, development, deployment, publishing, as well as discovery, composition and collaboration, plus monitoring and analytical control. Addit- nal contributions summarize some research and development challenges of bu- ding Web Service solutions. Especially, some contributions present an emerging research direction, namely, Web Services collaboration. Moreover, some major research activities associated with facilitating extended business collaboration using Web services and semantic annotation are also covered.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
The Next Big Thing: Web Services Collaboration….Pages 1-10
A Service Oriented Architecture for Managing Operational Strategies….Pages 11-23
Managing the Normative Context of Composite E-services….Pages 24-36
Constructing Web Services out of Generic Component Compositions….Pages 37-48
Adaptation Space: A Design Framework for Adaptive Web Services….Pages 49-63
Design and Implementation of an Asynchronous Invocation Framework for Web Services….Pages 64-78
Using Corporate Firewalls for Web Services Trust….Pages 79-87
Specification and Enforcement of Access Control in Heterogeneous Distributed Applications….Pages 88-100
A Gateway to Web Services Security – Securing SOAP with Proxies….Pages 101-108
Conflict Resolution in Web Service Federations….Pages 109-122
Web Services Based Architectures to Support Dynamic Inter-organizational Business Processes….Pages 123-136
AOP for Dynamic Configuration and Management of Web Services….Pages 137-151
An XML-Based Adaptive Multi-agent System for Handling E-commerce Activities….Pages 152-166
Towards Agent-Based Rational Service Composition – RACING Approach….Pages 167-182
Semantic Web Enabled Web Services: State-of-Art and Industrial Challenges….Pages 183-197
Uni-Grid P&T: A Toolkit for Building Customizable Grid Portals….Pages 198-212
On Extracting Link Information of Relationship Instances from a Web Site….Pages 213-226
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