Facilitating Service Creation via Partial Specification and Automated Composition

Service composition is an important feature enabled by Service Oriented Computing but it remains mainly a manual process. Proposals for complete or partial automation of composition exist, the majority relying on artificial intelligence-based planning, automated proof techniques, or graph-based solutions. Although sound, these approaches present practical issues that prevent their use in production scenarios. This paper presents a composition tool that allows for partial service specification along with a composition algorithm based on the semantic matching of services inputs and outputs. Early performance numbers are also presented.