A rule based approach to the service composition life-cycle

Author

Yang, Jian ; Papazoglou, Mike P. ; Orriëns, Bart ; Van Heuvel, Willem-Jan

Author_Institution

Infolab, Tilburg Univ., Netherlands

fYear

2003

fDate

10-12 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

295

Lastpage

298

Abstract

Web services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributed computing and electronic business. This has raised the opportunity for service providers and application developers to develop value-added services by combining existing Web services. However the current Web service composition solutions, even for the applications developed on the basis of the standard Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL for short), are rather restricted and inflexible as they lack proper support for generating dynamic compositions and for managing the service composition life cycle. The ReServCom project proposed here aims to remedy this situation by introducing a rule based approach for Web service composition which combines best practices from rule base systems and software engineering to support parameterization, dynamic binding, and flexible service compositions.

Keywords

Internet; electronic commerce; knowledge based systems; software engineering; Business Process Execution Language for Web Services; ReServCom project; Web services; application developers; distributed computing; dynamic binding; electronic business; flexible service compositions; parameterization support; rule-based approach; service composition life-cycle; service providers; software engineering; value-added services; Application software; Best practices; Context-aware services; Distributed computing; Human factors; Packaging; Software engineering; Standards development; Web and internet services; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Information Systems Engineering, 2003. WISE 2003. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1999-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WISE.2003.1254497

Filename

1254497