Model Driven Development and Dynamic Composition of Web Services

The globalization of the world economy leads to the proliferation of service-oriented businesses. Enterprises feel the excitement to leverage the internet to expand their customer bases, yet at the same time they feel the urge to reduce operation cost by using low-cost online service offerings to power their product line. Thus developing in-house Web Services while reusing and composing existing Web Services undergird the modern revolution of enterprise IT divisions. This book strikes a balance between theory and practice by analyzing the fundamental concerns facing the evolution of enterprise software to the modern Service-Oriented Architecture, and presents novel software engineering approaches to tackle those hard issues during software development life cycles. Both academic researchers and industry professionals will benefit from the unique perspectives that can be found throughout this book.