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Towards Patterns of Web Services Composition

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Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing

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The growth of the Internet has unleashed a wave of innovations that are reshaping the way organisations interact with their partners and customers. In particular, the concept of electronically-accessible service (also known as e-service or Web service) has gained a considerable momentum as a paradigm for supporting both Business-to-Consumer (B2C) interaction and Business-to-Business (B2B) collaboration.

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  1. School of Information Systems, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, Australia

    Fethi A. Rabhi PhD

  2. Technical University of Berlin, Sekr, FR5-6, Franklinstr. 28/29, D-10587, Berlin, Germany

    Sergei Gorlatch PhD

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Benatallah, B., Dumas, M., Fauvet, MC., Rabhi, F.A. (2003). Towards Patterns of Web Services Composition. In: Rabhi, F.A., Gorlatch, S. (eds) Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0097-3_10

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