1. The development, testing, and deployment of a web services infrastructure for distributed healthcare delivery, research, and training / Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui -- 2. Multi-tier framework for management of Web services' quality / Abdelghani Benharref [et al.] -- 3. Quality models for multimedia delivery in a services oriented architecture / Krishna Ratakonda -- 4. Virtual Web services / Julio Fernández Vilas -- 5. Profiling of Web services to measure and verify their non-functional properties / Witold Abramowicz -- 6. Enhancing the Web service description and discovery processes with QoS / Kyriakos Kritikos -- 7. Web services dependability / Michael Jaeger, Matthias Werner -- 8. Transactional Composite Applications / Frederic Montagut, Refik Molva, Silvan Tecumseh Golega -- 9. A logic programming based framework for intelligent Web service composition / Enrico Pontelli, Tran Cao Son, Chitta Baral -- 10. Enhancing the testability of Web services / Daniel Brenner [et al.] -- 11. Aspect-oriented framework for Web services (AoF4WS) / Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui, Zakaria Maamar, Nanjangud Narendra -- 12. Open security framework for unleashing semantic Web services / Ty Mey Eap [et al.] -- 13. Providing Web services security SLA guarantees / Vishal Dwivedi -- 14. Adoption of Web services in digital libraries / Fatih Oguz -- 15. Service evolution and maintainability / Bijoy Majumdar -- 16. The role of Web services / Pauline Ratnasingam.