Search Strategies for Automatic Web Service Composition

: We investigate architectural properties required for supporting automatic service composition. First, composable service architecture will be described, based on modeling Web services as machines supported by formally defined composition operators. Based on the proposed infrastructure we give several options for achieving automatic service composition by treating it as a search problem. Namely, basic heuristic, probabilistic, learning-based, decomposition and bidirectional automatic composition mechanisms will be presented and compared. Finally, we discuss the impact and outlook for automatic composition. KEY WORDS: Web services, automatic composition

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: JWSR
• Authors: Nikola Milanovic, Miroslaw Malek
• Keywords: Automatic Composition, Automatic Service, Automatic Service Composition, JWSR 2006