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WILEY INDIA Service-Oriented Computing: Semantics, Processes, Agents by Munindar P Singh
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.
About the Author
Dr. Munindar P. Singh is a full professor in the department of computer science at North Carolina State University. From 1989 through 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS
About the Authors.
Preface.
Note to the Reader.
Acknowledgments.
Figures.
Tables.
Listings.
I Basics.
1. Computing with Services.
2. Basic Standards for Web Services.
3. Programming Web Services.
4. Enterprise Architectures.
5. Principles of Service-Oriented Computing.
II Description.
6. Modeling and Representation.
7. Resource Description Framework.
8. Web Ontology Language.
9. Ontology Management.
III Engagement.
10. Execution Models.
11. Transaction Concepts.
12. Coordination Frameworks for Web Services.
13. Process Specifications.
14. Formal Specification and Enactment.
IV Collaboration.
15. Agents.
16. Multiagent Systems.
17. Organizations.
18. Communication.
V Solutions.
19. Semantic Service Solutions.
20. Social Service Selection.
21. Economic Service Selection.
VI Engineering.
22. Building SOC Applications.
23. Service Management.
24. Security.
VII Directions.
25. Challenge and Extensions.
VIII Appendices.
Appendix A: XML and XML Schema.
Appendix B: URI, URN, URL and UUID.
Appendix C: XML Namespace Abbreviations.
Glossary.
About the Authors.
Bibliography.
Index.