Web services composition: Complexity and models

Web Services Composition: A Story of Models, Automata, and Logics

The web services paradigm, which finds roots in Service-Oriented Computing [1, 12], promises to enable rich, flexible, and dynamic interoperation of highly distributed and heterogeneous web-hosted services. Substantial progress has already been made towards this goal (e.g., emerging standards such as SOAP, WSDL, BPEL) and industrial technology (e.g., IBM’s WebSphere Toolkit, Sun’s Open Net Envi...

Web Services: Foundation and Composition

Today both business analysts and information systems engineers attribute a great potential to Web services as a vehicle to simplify the interoperability of services offered by different organizations in electronic business scenarios. In this paper, the Service Oriented Architecture is explained as the foundation of this new technology. The main implications and benefits of this architecture and...

Semantic Web Services Composition

Web services are becoming the most predominant paradigm for distributed computing and electronic business. They are self-contained Internet accessible applications that are capable not only of performing business activities on their own, but they also possess the ability to engage with other Web services in order to build new value-added services. Both academic and industrial bodies have been i...

Web Services Composition

1. INTRODUCTION Nowadays many enterprises publish their applications functionalities on the Internet. This new generation of applications allows greater efficiency and availability for business. In fact, more and more applications make functionalities available using a web service format. However there are many services around the web, each one, taken alone, has a limited functionality. In many...

Semantic Web Enabled Composition of Web Services