Innovations, Standards, and Practices of Web Services

In this context, a web service is a software system designed to use standard protocols to support interoperable machine-to-machine interactions over a network. Computer scientists and related researchers survey the state of the field, emphasizing best practices, standards, and new ideas. Their topics include privacy preserving trust establishment with web service enhancements, a model-based approach to diagnosing fault in web service processes, issues on the compatibility of web service contracts, a framework and protocols for service contract agreements based on international contract law, an integrated framework for web services orchestration, and a web service enabled online laboratory. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)