G. Meredith’s scientific contributions

... Web services are a successful instantiation of SOC [1,2,3], they are used by a wide array of companies and governments because of their autonomy, reusability, flexibility, and platform-independence. Web services aim to achieve safe and transparent interoperability, using a framework based primarily on XML (eXtensible Markup Language) [4], SOAP [5], WSDL [6] and UDDI [7]. The WSDL (Web Service Description Language) provides an abstract language to describe messages to be exchanged between services. ...

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Toward a Formalization of BPEL 2.0 : An Algebra Approach

... The definition of services in general has been approached from multiple perspectives. At the syntactic level with the reference of Services-Oriented-Architecture (SoA) [14] and XML (Extended Mark-Up Language) [15], derived languages such as WSDL [16], WADL [17], or SoAML [14], UDDI [18] (both related to UML [19]), it has been attempted to specify at the technical level the modeling of Internet services. ...

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Semantics of Data Mining Services in Cloud Computing

... 2 Background: OpenAPI APIs can be described using natural language, informal models, or generalpurpose modeling languages. There exist also machine-readable Domain Specific Languages [14] for describing them, such as RAML [3], WADL [17], WSDL [11], I/O Docs [4], and OpenAPI [1], which gained more importance in the five last years by being selected as a standard language for APIs description. ...

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ExpressO: From Express.js Implementation Code to OpenAPI Interface Descriptions