With the growing adoption of service-oriented computing, locating services becomes increasingly commonplace. Accordingly, a large number of systems for service discovery have been developed. Although all these systems perform the same function, they do it in lots of different ways. Finding commonalities of and differences between these systems can be hard due to the lack of criteria to compare ...

This paper presents the linguistic analysis tools and its infrastructure developed within the XLike project. The main goal of the implemented tools is to provide a set of functionalities for supporting some of the main objectives of XLike, such as enabling cross-lingual services for publishers, media monitoring or developing new business intelligence applications. The services cover seven major...

A major challenge for Service-oriented Computing is how to discover and compose (Web) services to build complex applications. We present a matchmaking system that exploits both semantics and behavioural information to discover service compositions capable of satisfying a client request.

Ensuring a secure Service-Oriented Architecture implementation within an organisation is challenging. Without sound information security principles supporting a Service-Oriented Architecture implementation, the rate of success is low. The information security principles of identification, authentication, authorization, confidentiality, integrity, availability and accountability remain the same ...

In recent years, numerous new approaches that rely on data-intensive methods have been developed for maritime assistance systems, leading to a compelling need more elaborate verification and validation procedures. Modern testbeds can meet these demands are often separately from the system itself provided as generically usable services. However, joint usage of such by multiple stakeholders resea...