Effective Web Service Composition in Diverse and Large-Scale Service Networks

Web services are considered to be a potential silver bullet for the envisioned Service Oriented Architecture, in which loosely coupled software components are published, located, and executed as integral parts of distributed applications. The main research focus of Web services is to achieve the interoperability between distributed and heterogeneous applications. Therefore, flexible composition of Web services to fulfill the given challenging requirements is one of the most important objectives in this research field. However, until now, service composition has been largely an error-prone and tedious process. Furthermore, as the number of available Web services increases, finding the right Web services to satisfy the given goal becomes intractable. In this paper, toward these issues, we propose an AI planning-based framework that enables the automatic composition of Web services, and explore the following issues. First, we formulate the Web service composition problem in terms of AI pl...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: TSC
• Authors: Seog-Chan Oh, Dongwon Lee, Soundar R. T. Kumara
• Keywords: Service Composition, TSC 2008, Web Service, Web Service Composition