Volume 9, Issue 1 

From Web Services to Services Computing: Technologies and Applications

Guest Editors:

Dr. J. Leon Zhao & Professor Mohan Tanniru, University of Arizona
Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM Research

[Go to the ISF Journal Volume 9, Number 1 / March, 2007]

(All articles are free)

Table of Contents

Services computing as the foundation of enterprise agility: Overview of recent advances and introduction to the special issue ( 1-8 )
J. Leon Zhao*, Mohan Tanniru* and Liang-Jie Zhang**,
*University of Arizona & **IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

A web services framework for distributed model management ( 9-27 )
Therani Madhusudan
University of Arizona


Guided interaction: A mechanism to enable ad hoc service interaction ( 29-51 )
Phillipa Oaks and Arthur ter Hofstede
Queensland University of Technology , Australia


Realizing the vision for web services: Strategies for dealing with imperfect standards ( 53-67 )
Sanjay Gosain
Capital Group Companies, USA


A framework for deriving semantic web services ( 69-84 )
David Bell*, Sergio de Cesare*, Nicola Iacovelli**, Mark Lycett* and Antonio Merico**
*Brunel University, UK & **Svimservice S.p.A., Italy


End-to-end privacy control in service outsourcing of human intensive processes: A multi-layered Web service integration approach ( 85-101)
Patrick C. K. Hung1 , Dickson K. W. Chiu2 , W. W. Fung3 , William K. Cheung4, Raymond Wong5 , Samuel P. M. Choi6 , Eleanna Kafeza7 , James Kwok3 , Joshua C. C. Pun3 and Vivying S. Y. Cheng3
1University of Ontario Institute of Technology , Canada,
2Dickson Computer Systems, Kowloon , Hong Kong,
3University of Science and Technology, Kowloon , Hong Kong,
4Hong Kong Baptist University ,
5University of New South Wales , Sydney , Australia,
6The Open University of Hong Kong, Kowloon , Hong Kong,
7Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens , Greece

Enhancing the efficiency of supply chain processes through web services ( 103-118 )
Seung-Hyun Rhee, Hyerim Bae and Yongsun Choi
Pusan National University , Republic of Korea

A theoretical investigation of the emerging standards for web services ( 119-134 )
Karthikeyan Umapathy and Sandeep Purao
Penn State University , University Park