Constitutes the workshops of the 4th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2006, held in Chicago, IL, USA in December 2006. This book contains separate descriptions of the workshops as well as various high-quality paper contributions to these workshops.

Second International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications: Design and Composition.- Managing SOA Through Business Services – A Business-Oriented Approach to Service-Oriented Architectures.- Reliable Scientific Service Compositions.- A Service-Oriented Architecture for Electric Power Transmission System Asset Management.- A Language for Quality of Service Requirements Specification in Web Services Orchestrations.- A Semi-automated Orchestration Tool for Service-Based Business Processes.- Web Service Composition: An Approach Using Effect-Based Reasoning.- Analysis of Composite Web Services Using Logging Facilities.- QoS Prediction for Composite Web Services with Transactions.- Service Aggregation Using Relational Operations on Interface Parameters.- A BPEL Based Implementation of Online Auctions.- Dynamic Binding for BPEL Processes – A Lightweight Approach to Integrate Semantics into Web Services.- First International Workshop on Modeling Service-Oriented Architectures:Business Perspective and Model Mapping.- A Model-Driven Approach for QoS Prediction of BPEL Processes.- Modelling of Service Compositions: Relations to Business Process and Workflow Modelling.- Extending the UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology and Core Components for Intra-organizational Service Orchestration.- A Pattern-Based Approach to Business Process Modeling and Implementation in Web Services.- Integrating Semantic Business Policy into Web Service Composition.- Model Driven Service Domain Analysis.

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