Service-Oriented Computing

This comprehensive text&#160;explains the principles and practice of Web services and relates all concepts to practical examples and emerging standards.&#160; Its discussions include: <ul> <li>Ontologies <li>Semantic web technologies <li>Peer-to-peer service discovery <li>Service selection <li>Web structure and link analysis <li>Distributed transactions <li>Process modelling <li>Consistency management.&#160; </ul> <p> The&#160;application of these technologies&#160;is clearly explained&#160;within the context of&#160;planning, negotiation, contracts, compliance, privacy, and network policies. The&#160;presentation of&#160;the 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.&#160; Ideas from these disciplines are united in the context of Web services and service-based applications.&#160; <p> Featuring an accompanying website and teacher&#8217;s manual that includes a complete set of transparencies for lectures, copies of open-source software for exercises and working implementations, and resources to conduct course projects, this book makes an excellent graduate textbook.&#160; It will also prove an invaluable reference and training tool for&#160;practitioners.