algorithm With the development of the semantic Web, the specification of Web services has evolved from a “remote procedure call ” style to a behavioral description including standard constructors of programming languages. Such a transformation introduces new problems since traditional clients

within the same domain. However, provision of cross-domain interoperability among collaborating domains is a new challenge that needs more attention from the research community. Such interoperability requires data and service extraction to obtain common subsets of information and services

Within distributed systems, interoperability is a key feature enabling the interaction between distributed components. This paper elaborates several approaches of achieving interoperability on different levels with a focus on service interoperability. The analysis of existing approaches motivates

Web Services are self describing applications that can be invoked by other web applications to accomplish complex tasks. The services and their clients are designed in such a way that they are interoperable. The data sent to or from the Web Service might contain sensitive information. To protect

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Service interoperability is a major obstacle in realizing the SOA vision. Interoperability is the capability of multiple, autonomous and heterogeneous systems to use each other’s services effectively. It is about the meaningful sharing of functionality and information that leads to the achievement

interoperability among participating entities in a Web service can be tricky. Despite the advances made by standards bodies like Web Services Interoperability Organization, many architectural and implementation level mismatches remain to be tackled. These mismatches stem mainly from the differences in the way

are “semantically compatible ” if and only if their interface signatures match. As a result, interoperability is severely restricted unless there is a single, globally agreed-upon, unique interface for each service type. By separating the two subproblems and delegating different parts of the problem to the user

Abstract. The Web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. The first step toward this interoperation is the location of other services that can help toward the solution of a problem. In this paper we claim that location

autonomous machine communication over the WWW. Here, solutions based on service-oriented architectures and ontologies are being actively researched, and we examine how such an approach could be used to address pervasive computing's interoperability problem. The paper outlines the potential role