International Journal of Web and Grid Services

Web services are providing declarative interfaces to services offered by systems on the Internet, including messaging protocols, standard interfaces, directory services, as well as security layers, for efficient/effective business application integration. Grid computing has emerged as a global platform to support organisations for coordinated sharing of distributed data, applications, and processes. It has also started to leverage web services to define standard interfaces for business services. IJWGS addresses web and grid service technology, emphasising issues of architecture, implementation, and standardisation. Topics covered include Web services modelling, performance Web Service frameworks, architectures, infrastructures Web semantics Web Services specification, discovery, security, quality Workflow planning/composition for grid services Software/reliability engineering Security for grid services Business semantics, metadata, ontologies in grids Grid service compatibility/integration/interoperability/policy/agents Intelligent services Grid service business models/applications Grid services/infrastructures, performance, testing, benchmarking Web services, semantic web Agent technology, web services/agents in grid infrastructure Grid convergence, confluence of service-oriented architectures