Choreography of intelligent e-services

Electronic Services (e-Services), referred to as a set of automated enterprise services using ICT to achieve a business goal, have significantly contributed to the growth of e-commerce, science, and telecommunications. However, applications that use e-Services seldom interoperate effectively, and this restricts the benefits they offer. The main purpose of e-Services is to have an anthology of network-resident software services accessed via standardised protocols whose meaning can be regularly discovered and integrated into applications. Our study supplements the definition provided for e-Service by complementing it with an intelligent capability for the purpose of effective and efficient choreography of processes, hence the term "intelligent e-Services". The aim of the study is to propose the composition of intelligent e-Services in a manner which encourages the interoperability of a range of services pertaining to various autonomous virtual enterprises (VEs). It is expected that a framework that defines and supports the composition of intelligent e-Services will be formed. It is also anticipated that the study will play an important role in contributing to the formation of dynamic virtual enterprises (DVEs) as an application business scenario.