On Embedding Task Memory in Services Composition Frameworks

With the increasing availability of Web services and adoption of services oriented paradigm, there is a growing need to dynamically compose services for realizing complex user tasks. While service composition is itself an important problem, a key issue is also how to support users in selecting the most appropriate compositions of services to fulfill a task. In existing dynamic services selection approaches, combinations of services are repeatedly discovered (e.g., using ontology-based matching techniques) and selected by users whenever needed. To improve their effectiveness, we propose a new technique that provides an efficient access to what is named a “task memory”. A task memory is used to provide users with a context-aware service selection by recommending combinations of services that are most appropriate in a given context. A task memory is formed using the service composition history and their metadata. We present an incremental approach for building the task memory in which...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICWE
• Authors: Rosanna Bova, Hye-Young Paik, Salima Hassas, Salima Benbernou, Boualem Benatallah
• Keywords: ICWE 2007, Service Composition, Services Oriented Paradigm, Task Memory