Towards a context-based multi-type policy approach for Web services composition

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 327-351

  Maamar, Zakaria ^a   Benslimane, Djamal ^b   Thiran, Philippe ^c   Ghedira, Chirine ^b   Dustdar, Schahram ^d   Sattanathan, Subramanian ^e  

^a ZAYED UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^e Airvana Networks India Private limited   (India)

Author keywords

Composition; Context; Exception; Policy; Web service

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; PUBLIC POLICY; SEMANTICS;

CONTEXT-BASED MULTI-TYPE POLICY; HETEROGENEITY; MEDIATION POLICIES;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 34247623012     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2006.08.007     Document Type: Article

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