A Goal-Oriented Perspective on Approaches to Web Service Discovery

Goal modeling is a prominent design paradigm in various domains of information systems engineering. In the field of service oriented computing (SOC) and in the field of semantic web services, emergent research works are basing their engineering approach on the goal concept. Because of the complexity of processes underlying SOC, the usage of the goal concept can vary to a large extent. In this paper, we study approaches to service oriented engineering and propose a frame-work to analyze and better understand how the goal concept is used in web service discovery. The framework is inspired by the four world vision of information systems engineering (i.e. subject, system, development and usage). Using this framework, we review eight prominent research works in SOE. Through this analysis, we seek to better understand the link between semantic web technologies and the goal concept, and what are the challenging issues in terms of goal usage in service discovery.