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A dual-layered model for web services representation and composition

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Abdelkamel Tari,

Islam Elgedawy,

Abdelnasser DahmaniAuthors Info & Claims

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Volume 32, Issue 3

Pages 237 - 265

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10844-008-0067-2

Published: 01 June 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Nowadays more and more companies and organizations implement their business services in the Internet due to the tremendous progress made recently in the field of Web services. It becomes possible to publish, locate and invoke applications across the Web. Thus, the ability to select efficiently and integrate at runtime services located in different sites on the Web is an important issue. In some situations, if no single Web service can satisfy the request of the user, there should be a possibility to combine existing services together in order to meet the user's request. This paper provides a dual-layered model for web services, where the first model layer captures the high-level functional specifications (namely goals, achievement contexts, and external behaviours), and the second model layer captures the low-level functional specifications (namely interfaces). This model allows the service composition process to be performed on both high-level and low-level specifications. We also introduce the composition operators (both high-level and low-level) to allow composition of virtual services.

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Journal of Intelligent Information Systems Volume 32, Issue 3

June 2009

108 pages

ISSN:0925-9902

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Tomczak JZieba MKounev SZschaler SSachs K(2013)On-line bayesian context change detection in web service systemsProceedings of the 2013 international workshop on Hot topics in cloud services10.1145/2462307.2462311(3-10)Online publication date: 20-Apr-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2462307.2462311
McDowall JKerschberg L(2012)Leveraging Social Networks to Improve Service Selection in Workflow CompositionProceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012)10.1109/ASONAM.2012.220(1278-1283)Online publication date: 26-Aug-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ASONAM.2012.220

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