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Web service composition: a reality check

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WISE'07: Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Web information systems engineering

Pages 523 - 532

Published: 03 December 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Automated web service composition is one of the major promises of service-oriented architecture, where services can be discovered and composed dynamically and automatically. To investigate the methods for composite web service construction, we conducted an experiment on creating useful composite web services from real existing web services where semantic annotations are not available. The empirical study reveals the difficulties and research challenges in the discovery, invocation, and composition of web services. The automation of web service composition requires the inputs from both services providers and service consumers. Service providers need to develop high quality services in a disciplined and collaborative way, and service consumers need to be equipped with tools providing helps such as service discovery and matching.

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Tavares TSantana REstrella JSantana MFilho JGomes RGerosa MGuizzardi R(2008)Caracterização dos Dados trocados entre serviços web e provedores de serviçosCompanion Proceedings of the XIV Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web10.1145/1809980.1809998(65-68)Online publication date: 26-Oct-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1809980.1809998

Web service composition: a reality check
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web

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WISE'07: Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Web information systems engineering

December 2007

675 pages

ISBN:3540769927

Editors:
Boualem Benatallah
The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
,
Fabio Casati
University of Trento, Trento, Italy
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Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
Telcordia, Austin Research Center, Austin, TX
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Claudio Bartolini
HP Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
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Wasim Sadiq
SAP Australia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Claude Godart
LORIA-ECOO, France

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Tavares TSantana REstrella JSantana MFilho JGomes RGerosa MGuizzardi R(2008)Caracterização dos Dados trocados entre serviços web e provedores de serviçosCompanion Proceedings of the XIV Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web10.1145/1809980.1809998(65-68)Online publication date: 26-Oct-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1809980.1809998

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