Description
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive textexplains 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.
Theapplication of these technologiesis clearly explainedwithin the context ofplanning, negotiation, contracts, compliance, privacy, and network policies. Thepresentation ofthe 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
Table of Contents
About the Authors.
Preface.
Note to the Reader.
Acknowledgments.
Figures.
Tables.
Listings.
I Basics.
1. Computing with Services.
2. Basic Standards for Web Services.
3. Programming Web Services.
4. Enterprise Architectures.
5. Principles of Service-Oriented Computing.
II Description.
6. Modeling and Representation.
7. Resource Description Framework.
8. Web Ontology Language.
9. Ontology Management.
III Engagement.
10. Execution Models.
11. Transaction Concepts.
12. Coordination Frameworks for Web Services.
13. Process Specifications.
14. Formal Specification and Enactment.
IV Collaboration.
15. Agents.
16. Multiagent Systems.
17. Organizations.
18. Communication.
V Solutions.
19. Semantic Service Solutions.
20. Social Service Selection.
21. Economic Service Selection.
VI Engineering.
22. Building SOC Applications.
23. Service Management.
24. Security.
VII Directions.
25. Challenge and Extensions.
VIII Appendices.
Appendix A: XML and XML Schema.
Appendix B: URI, URN, URL and UUID.
Appendix C: XML Namespace Abbreviations.
Glossary.
About the Authors.
Bibliography.
Index.
