Web Service Implementation and Composition Techniques

Hye-young Paik is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. She has been teaching and researching the topics related to Web services and Business Process Management for many years. Her current research interests include flexible Web service composition, personalizing business processes and text mining techniques for business processes. Angel Lagares Lemos is the COO of Nimbeo and a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Computer Science, Carlos III University, working with the IBIS group. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Australia, for his work on unlocking Web service composition. His current research interests include Web service composition, semantic Web, semantic Web services, business process modeling, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud computing. Moshe Chai Barukh is a Lecturer & Senior Research Fellow in the Service Oriented Computing Research Group at UNSW Australia. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW, for his work on effective techniques for Service Oriented Programming and management of Hybrid Processes. His primary research interests include Web services integration and composition techniques, agile business process management, big data analytics, cloud and social computing. Boualem Benatallah is a Scientia Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Australia; the founder and leader of the Service Oriented Computing Research Group at UNSW. His research interests include Web services composition, quality control in crowdsourcing services, cloud services orchestration, data curation and end users analytics. Aarthi Natarajan is an academic and software consultant with over 18 years of professional experience; she is currently engaged as a professional instructor at UNSW Australia and Oracle University. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW for her work on a model-driven architecture for conducting event data analysis. Her current research interests include big data/financial analytics, business process modeling and semantic technologies.