The authors have here put together the first reference on all aspects of testing and validating service-oriented architectures. With contributions by leading academic and industrial research groups it offers detailed guidelines for the actual validation process. Readers will find a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art approaches as well as techniques and tools to improve the quality of service-oriented applications. It also includes references and scenarios for future research and development.

Welcome to ICSOC-ServiceWave 2009. This volume contains the research and demopapersselectedforpresentationattheSeventhInternationalConferenceon Service-Oriented Computing, which was held in Stockholm, Sweden, November 24-27, 2009. Continuing the tradition set in the previous six years, we are pleased to present a high-quality technical program.This year ICSOC ServiceWaveworked together to convey a world-leading and unique opportunity for academic - searchers and industry practitioners to report their state-of-the-art research ?ndings in service-orientedcomputing. The joint conference aims to foster cro- community scienti?c excellence by gathering experts from various disciplines such as distributed systems, software engineering, computer networks, business intelligence, service science, grid and cloud computing, and security. Consistent with the high quality of the conference, we received 228 paper submissions from a number of di?erent disciplines. Thirty-sevenpapers were - cepted as regular contributions, for a very competitive acceptance rate of 16%; eight further submissions were accepted as short papers. The programalso c- prisedninedemonstrationsofinnovativetoolsandprototypes.Alltheseelements contributed to a program that covered the many di? erent areas of the discipline and provided an up-to-date synthesis of the researchon service-orientedsystems and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2007, held in Como, Italy in July 2007.

The 26 revised full papers and 13 revised short papers presented together with 9 demonstration papers, 4 industrial papers, and 4 papers of the doctoral symposium, were carefully reviewed and selected from 172 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on services, metrics and quality, caching, interfaces, models, verification and testing, semantics and Web 2.0, search, application development, demonstrations, the industrial track, and the doctoral consortium.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2006, held in Vienna, Austria in March 2006 as part of ETAPS. The 27 revised full papers, two tool papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 166 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections.

Over recent years most business processes have changed in various dimensions (e. g. , ?exibility, interconnectivity, coordination style, autonomy) due to market conditions, organizational models, and usage scenarios of information systems. Frequently, inf- mationisrelocatedwithinageographicallydistributedsystemaccordingtorulesthatare only seldom de?ned as a well-codi?ed business process. This creates the need for a so- ware infrastructure that enables ubiquitous mobile and collaboration systems (UMICS). The anywhere/anytime/any means paradigm is becoming the major challenge in conceiving, designing, and releasing next-generation information systems. New te- nologies, like wi-? networks and 3rd-generation mobile phones, are offering the infr- tructure to conceive of information systems as ubiquitous information systems, that is, systems that are accessible from anywhere, at any time, and with any device. Ubiquity is not yet another buzzword pushed by emerging technologies, but is mainly a means to support new business models and encourage new ways of working. This new wave of UMICS will exploit the knowledge developed and deployed for conventional infor- tion systems, but will also need new concepts, models, methodologies, and supporting technologies to fully exploit the potentials of the enabling infrastructure and to be ready for the challenge. Moreover, people need to move across organizational boundaries and collaborate with others within an organization as well as between organizations. The ability to query the company's distributed knowledge base and to cooperate with co-workers is still a requirement, but mobility brings new access scenarios and higher complexity.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2015, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in May 2015. The 10 full papers, presented with two invited talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The focus of the papers is on the topics such as: programming frameworks, languages, models and abstractions for MAS; formal methods and declarative technologies for specification, verification and engineering of MAS; MAS software engineering methodologies and techniques, and development concerns; interoperability and integration; tools and testbeds; MAS techniques; and empirical studies and (industrial) experience reports.

The authors have here put together the first reference on all aspects of testing and validating service-oriented architectures. With contributions by leading academic and industrial research groups it offers detailed guidelines for the actual validation process. Readers will find a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art approaches as well as techniques and tools to improve the quality of service-oriented applications. It also includes references and scenarios for future research and development.