This book specifically focuses on the foundations of Web services and SOC and covers - among others - Web service composition, non-functional aspects of Web services, Web service selection and recommendation, and assisted Web service composition.

Web Services and Business Processes: A Round Trip.- RESTful Web Services: Principles, Patterns, Emerging Technologies.- Conceptual Design of Sound, Custom Composition Languages.- Service-Oriented Programming with Jolie.- From Artifacts to Activities.- On the Composability of Semantic Web Service.- Semantic Web Service Composition: the Web Service Challenge Perspective.- Automated Service Composition Based on Behaviors: The Roman Model.- Behavioral Service Substitution.- Web Service Adaptation: Mismatch Patterns and Semi-Automated Approach to Mismatch Identification and Adapter Development.- Transformation Framework for Consistent Evolution of UML.- Behavioral Elements into BPMN Design Element.- Context-Aware Services Engineering for Service-Oriented Architectures.- Service Selection in Web Service Composition: A Comparative Review of Existing Approaches.- QoS Analysis in Service Oriented Computing.- QoS-based Service Selection.- Composition of Web Services: from Qualitative to Quantitative Timed Properties.- Adaptive Composition and QoS Optimization of Conversational Services through Graph Planning Encoding.- Automated Negotiation Among Web services.- DRAAS: Dynamically Reconfigurable Architecture for Autonomic Services.- Comprehensive Variability Modeling and Management for Customizable Process-Based Service Compositions.- Software Product Line Engineering to Develop Variant-rich Web Services.- QoS-aware Web Service Recommendation via Collaborative Filtering.- On Bootstrapping Web Service Recommendation.- An Approach for Service Discovery and Recommendation using Contexts.- Data Transformation Knowledge Reuse in Spreadsheet-based Mashup Development Platform.- A Unified RGPS-Based Approach Supporting Service-Oriented Process Customization.- Assisted Mashup Development: On the Discovery and Recommendation of Mashup Composition Knowledge.- End Users Developing Mashups.

Most comprehensive state-of-the-art collection on Service-Oriented Computing on the market Sample topics include Web service composition, non-functional aspects of Web services, and assisted Web service composition Contributions from renowned and established experts in the field