Service-Oriented Computing -- ICSOC 2003: First International Conference, Trento, Italy, December 15-18, 2003, Proceedings [Paperback]

Service Description.- Capabilities: Describing What Services Can Do.- Representing Web Services with UML: A Case Study.- A Peer-to-Peer Advertising Game.- Service Composition.- Automatic Composition of E-services That Export Their Behavior.- Service Discovery and Orchestration for Distributed Service Repositories.- Model Driven Service Composition.- Quality of Service Models.- Automating the Procurement of Web Services.- A Quality of Service Management Framework Based on User Expectations.- Reflective Architectures for Adaptive Information Systems.- Service Personalization.- E-healthcare via Customized Information Services: Addressing the Need for Factually Consistent Information.- Everything Personal, Not Just Business: Improving User Experience through Rule-Based Service Customization.- VINCA  A Visual and Personalized Business-Level Composition Language for Chaining Web-Based Services.- Service Semantics.- Stepwise Refinable Service Descriptions: Adapting DAML-S to Staged ServiceTrading.- Semantic Structure Matching for Assessing Web-Service Similarity.- Preliminary Report of Public Experiment of Semantic Service Matchmaker with UDDI Business Registry.- Business Processes and Transactions.- Comparing WSDL-Based and ebXML-Based Approaches for B2B Protocol Specification.- A Model-Driven Architecture for Electronic Service Management Systems.- The Business Grid: Providing Transactional Business Processes via Grid Services.- Business Collaborations.- An Architectural Pattern to Extend the Interaction Model between Web-Services: The Location-Based Service Context.- PANDA: Specifying Policies for Automated Negotiations of Service Contracts.- Model Checking Correctness Properties of Electronic Contracts.- Service Request and Coordination.- Supporting Dynamic Changes in Web Service Environments.- Planning and Monitoring the Execution of Web Service Requests.- WS-Workspace: Workspace Versioning for Web Services.- Service Security and Reliability.- Secure Service Provisló!