Challenges and Opportunities for Web Services Research

Abstract

Web services are becoming a major research topic for computer scientists, engineers and business consulting professionals. In this preface, I would like to outline the challenges of the current Web services research topics from the modeling, interoperability, and mathematical foundations points of view. Then I will introduce some research opportunities and possible future directions for moving Web services forward via some illustrative ideas such as business semantic computing as well as killer application driven Web services research approaches. For the business semantic computing aspect I will present some example application domains such as federated Web services discovery, dynamic Web services composition and extended business collaboration.