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• design phases for which the ultimate goal is a design to which various
parties contribute with their own services, or
• both of the above modeled in a single workflow application.
In paper [66] the author presented a workflow application for assembly of
products out of components provided by third parties and subsequent distribu-
tion. Delivery of particular components can be expressed as services with cor-
responding QoS parameters. The workflow application includes three stages:
1. acquiring components, each modeled as a service and provided by ser-
vices offered by various providers, ...