Web service composition languages: Old wine in New bottles?

Conference Proceedings of the EUROMICRO

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 298-305

  Van Der Aalst, Wil M P ^a,b   Dumas, Marlon ^b   Ter Hofstede, Arthur H M ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION DOMAIN; BLOCK STRUCTURED; RIGOROUS APPROACH; STRUCTURED PROCESS MODELS; WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION; WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION LANGUAGES; WEB SERVICES COMPOSITION; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE; SEMANTICS; WEBSITES; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 84889584577     PISSN: 10896503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EURMIC.2003.1231605     Document Type: Conference Paper

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