• Updated research and development results on the composition technologies of web services for ever-sophisticated service requirements from various users and communities
• Fundamental methods such as Petri nets and social network analysis to advance the theory and applications of workflow design and web service composition
• Practical and real applications of the developed theory and methods for such platforms as personalized healthcare and Biomedical Informatics Grids
• The authors' efforts on advancing service composition methods for both business and scientific software systems, with theoretical and empirical contributions

With workflow-driven service composition and reuse being a hot topic in both academia and industry, this book is ideal for researchers, engineers, scientists, professionals, and students who work on service computing, software engineering, business and scientific workflow management, the internet, and management information systems (MIS).