Service-Oriented Computing ICSOC 2006 [electronic resource] : 4th International Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, December 4-7, 2006, Workshops Proceedings / edited by Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Norbert Ritter, Boualem Benatallah, Christian Zirpins, George Feuerlicht, Marten Schoenherr, Hamid R. Motahari-Nezhad.

Second International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications: Design and Composition -- Managing SOA Through Business Services – A Business-Oriented Approach to Service-Oriented Architectures -- Reliable Scientific Service Compositions -- A Service-Oriented Architecture for Electric Power Transmission System Asset Management -- A Language for Quality of Service Requirements Specification in Web Services Orchestrations -- A Semi-automated Orchestration Tool for Service-Based Business Processes -- Web Service Composition: An Approach Using Effect-Based Reasoning -- Analysis of Composite Web Services Using Logging Facilities -- QoS Prediction for Composite Web Services with Transactions -- Service Aggregation Using Relational Operations on Interface Parameters -- A BPEL Based Implementation of Online Auctions -- Dynamic Binding for BPEL Processes – A Lightweight Approach to Integrate Semantics into Web Services -- First International Workshop on Modeling Service-Oriented Architectures: Business Perspective and Model Mapping -- A Model-Driven Approach for QoS Prediction of BPEL Processes -- Modelling of Service Compositions: Relations to Business Process and Workflow Modelling -- Extending the UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology and Core Components for Intra-organizational Service Orchestration -- A Pattern-Based Approach to Business Process Modeling and Implementation in Web Services -- Integrating Semantic Business Policy into Web Service Composition -- Model Driven Service Domain Analysis.