| December 2002 | Vol. 25 No. 4 |
IEEE Computer Society
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Letters |
| Letter from the Editor-in-Chief | David Lomet | 1 |
| Letter from the Special Issue Editors | Fabio Casati, Umeshwar Dayal | 2 |
Special Issue on Web Services |
| Myths around Web Services | Gustavo Alonso | 3 |
| Exploiting Web Service Semantics: Taxonomies vs. Ontologies |   |
| Asuman Dogac, Gokce Laleci, Yildiray Kabak, Ibrahim Cingil | 10 |
| Integration, Web Services Style | Michael Carey, Michael Blevins, Pal Takacsi-Nagy | 17 |
| Conductor: An Enabler for Web Services-based Business Collaboration |   |
| David Burdett, Qiming Chen, and Meichun Hsu | 22 |
| Phoenix Application Recovery Project | Roger S. Barga | 27 |
| Business Operation Intelligence Research at HP Labs |   |
| Fabio Casati, Malu Castellanos, Umeshwar Dayal, Ming Hao, Mehmet Sayal and Ming-Chien Shan | 32 |
| Cooperative Information Systems in Virtual Districts: the VISPO Approach | Enzo Colombo, Chiara Fran- |   |
| calanci, Barbara Pernici, Pierluigi Plebani, Massimo Mecella, Valeria De Antonellis, and Michele Melchiori | 36 |
| Planning for Requests against Web Services | Mike Papazoglou, Marco Aiello, Marco Pistore, and Jian Yang | 41 |
| Definition and Execution of Composite Web Services: The SELF-SERV Project |   |
| Boualem Benatallah, Marlon Dumas, and Zakaria Maamar | 47 |
| Model-driven Specification of Web Services Composition and Integration with Data-intensive Web Applications |   |
| Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Sara Comai, Piero Fraternali, and Ioana Manolescu | 53 |
| The Role of Web Services in Information Search | Jens Graupmann and Gerhard Weikum | 60 |
| Profiling and Service Delivery in Internet-enabled Cars | Mariano Cilia and Alejandro Buchmann | 66 |
Announcements and Notices |
| ICDE Confrence | backcover |