A Flexible Framework for Semi-automatic Web Services Composition

Author

Li, GeXin ; Haijiang Hai ; Hu, Zhiwen

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Wenzhou Univ., Wenzhou

fYear

2008

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1258

Lastpage

1262

Abstract

Recently, research on Web services composition has attracted a lot of attentions from both academic and industry. Related research projects and prototype platforms are also been developed. We have implemented the semi-automatic services composition with workflow technology which combines Business Process Execution Language for Web Services with process ontology. We propose a method for semi-automatic composition of Web services using process ontology. This method describes unfixed part of a process by process ontology, The fixed part is described by BPEL. In this paper, we propose a flexible framework for Web services composition which consists of services composition model and services composition execution. The former includes mainly Web services discovery, composition and verification, the latter includes Web services composition composer and execution. A framework based on this approach has been successfully implemented in the DartFlow project.

Keywords

Web services; business data processing; ontologies (artificial intelligence); workflow management software; business process execution language; flexible framework; process ontology; semiautomatic Web service composition; service composition execution; services composition model; workflow technology; Application software; Computer industry; Computer science; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Ontologies; Prototypes; Service oriented architecture; Simple object access protocol; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference, 2008. APSCC '08. IEEE

Conference_Location

Yilan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3473-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3473-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APSCC.2008.152

Filename

4780852