
CHAPTER 5
Web Services Composition and
Geographic Information
Pasquale Di Giovanni,
a,b,
* Michela Bertolotto,
a
Giuliana
Vitiello
b
and Monica Sebillo
b
Introduction
In recent years, the continuous development of the Web and network
infrastructures has had a profound impact both on the way users’ access
information and utilize traditional computer applications, and on the
manner these applications are designed and developed. The network
development, in fact, has been a key factor for the transition from stand alone
and centralized software architectures to distributed ones, enabling software
components located in different geographic locations to communicate ...