Contents -- 1 Overview of Service-Oriented Computing -- 2 Conceptual Modeling of Service-Driven Applications -- 3 Realizing Service-Oriented Architectures with Web Services -- 4 Service-Oriented Support for Dynamic Interorganizational Business Process Management -- 5 Data and Process Mediation in Semantic Web Services -- 6 Toward Configurable QoS-Aware Web Services Infrastructure -- 7 Configurable QoS Computation and Policing in Dynamic Web Service Selection -- 8 WS-Agreement Concepts and Use: Agreement-Based, Service-Oriented Architectures -- 9 Transaction Support for Web Services -- 10 Transactional Web Services -- 11 Service Componentization: Toward Service Reuse and Specialization -- 12 Requirements Engineering Techniques for e-Services -- 13 E-Service Adaptation -- Contributors -- Index.