Title: Service-oriented computing
First published: 2005
Description: This comprehensive text explains the principles and practice of Web services and relates all concepts to practical examples and emerging standards.  Its discussions include:     Ontologies  Semantic web technologies  Peer-to-peer service discovery  Service selection  Web structure and link analysis  Distributed transactions  Process modelling  Consistency management.      The application of these technologies is clearly explained within the context of planning, negotiation, contracts, compliance, privacy, and network policies. The presentation of 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.  Ideas from these disciplines are united in the context of Web services and service-based applications.    Featuring an accompanying website and teacher'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.  It will also prove an invaluable reference and training tool for practitioners.
Subjects: Web services, Engineering, Nonfiction, Technology, World wide web
LC classification: TK5105.88813 .S56 2005