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Service-Oriented Computing: Semantics, Processes, Agents

by Munindar P. Singh

A cross-disciplinary framework for Web services

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A cross-disciplinary framework for Web services

Munindar P. Singh connects the technical foundations of Web services with the processes and policies that shape their use. The subject matter ranges from ontologies, semantic technologies, and service discovery to distributed transactions, process modelling, and consistency management. Databases, distributed computing, artificial intelligence, and multi-agent systems provide the book’s conceptual toolkit, while planning, negotiation, contracts, compliance, privacy, and network policies place those ideas in application contexts. Practical examples and discussion of emerging standards accompany the technical material. The source also describes course resources, including lecture transparencies, open-source software, and project materials, alongside a teacher’s manual.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Graduate students studying Web services or distributed computing
  • Practitioners seeking a technical reference on service-based applications
  • Instructors planning coursework that uses software exercises and projects

Themes

Web services and service-based applicationsSemantic technologies and service discoveryDistributed transactions and process modellingContracts, compliance, privacy, and network policiesInterdisciplinary computing foundations

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Book overview

This comprehensive text explains the principles and practice of Web services and relates all concepts to practical examples and emerging standards. Its discussions include:
  • Ontologies
  • Semantic web technologies
  • Peer-to-peer service discovery
  • Service selection
  • Web structure and link analysis
  • Distributed transactions
  • Process modelling
  • Consistency management.

The application of these technologies is clearly explained within the context of planning, negotiation, contracts, compliance, privacy, and network policies. The presentation of the intellectual underpinnings of Web services draws from several key disciplines such as databases, distributed computing, artificial intelligence, and multi-agent systems for techniques and formalisms. Ideas from these disciplines are united in the context of Web services and service-based applications.

Featuring an accompanying website and teacher's manual that includes a complete set of transparencies for lectures, copies of open-source software for exercises and working implementations, and resources to conduct course projects, this book makes an excellent graduate textbook. It will also prove an invaluable reference and training tool for practitioners.

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