Service-Oriented Computing: Semantics, Processes, Agents

Description

This book explains the principles and practice of Web services to students of computer science and developers of modern software systems. It presents the necessary concepts, architectures, theories, techniques, standards, and infrastructure to employ Web services for software systems. The book includes a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in Web services and related disciplines. However, its main strength is in how it presents the intellectual underpinnings of Web services, drawing from disciplines such as databases, distributed computing, artificial intelligence, and multi-agent systems for techniques and formalisms. Ideas from these disciplines are united in the context of Web services and service-based applications.