Editorial: Context-Aware Application Integration and Transactional Behaviors

The Editor-in-Chief (EIC) welcomes you to the first issue of the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing in 2010. In this issue, he is pleased to publish six research papers, which include two regular submissions and four papers from a Special Section on Transactional Web Services. In this editorial preface, he introduces these papers in the context of the body of knowledge areas.