Database techniques for the World-Wide Web: a survey
ACM SIGMOD Record
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Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs
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Quality driven web services composition
WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web
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APSEC '00 Proceedings of the Seventh Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
Overview of some patterns for architecting and managing composite web services
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
Distributed enactment of multiagent workflows: temporal logic for web service composition
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 5 - Volume 5
Web services and business process management
IBM Systems Journal
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
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Web services enable the commoditization of computer code components for distributed system execution in cross-organizational platforms via the Internet. At any point in time, the state of a set of composite applications and the web services they are consuming constitutes an instance of a new type of dynamic software supply chain. Proper management of what we refer to as this "web services supply chain" requires seamlessly integrated and automated B2B relationships with responsibilities for procurement, performance monitoring, benchmarking, cost allocation and ongoing relationship maintenance requiring new hybrid organizational infrastructure constructs. To cope with the increased complexity of managing this dynamic supply chain, we elaborate requirements and propose an exemplar database schema design with web-scripts as a means for pre-specifying and monitoring organizationally approved patterns of web service invocations. The database research challenges associated with long-running transactions are discussed in our schema design, including reflections of the realities associated with web-script failure, variable quality-of-service (QoS) levels, the share-ability of web-scripts between organizational business processes, the need for continuous updating of web-scripts by agents (human or automated), and the scalability of designs to accommodate evolutionary change.