Semi-Automatic Distribution Pattern Modeling of Web Service Compositions using Semantics

Author

Barrett, Ronan ; Pahl, Claus

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput., Dublin City Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

417

Lastpage

422

Abstract

Enterprise systems are frequently built by combining a number of discrete Web services together, a process termed composition. There are a number of architectural configurations or distribution patterns, which express how a composed system is to be deployed. Previously, we presented a model driven architecture using UML 2.0, which took existing service interfaces as its input and generated an executable Web service composition, guided by a distribution pattern model. In this paper, we propose using Web service semantic descriptions in addition to Web service interfaces, to assist in the semi-automatic generation of the distribution pattern model. Web services described using semantic languages, such as OWLS, can be automatically assessed for compatibility and their input and output messages can be mapped to each other

Keywords

Web services; formal specification; Web service composition; Web service interfaces; Web service semantic descriptions; discrete Web services; enterprise systems; semantic languages; semiautomatic distribution pattern modeling; Automation; Buildings; Computer architecture; Distributed computing; OWL; Ontologies; Paper technology; Service oriented architecture; Unified modeling language; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2006. EDOC '06. 10th IEEE International

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

ISSN

1541-7719

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2558-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDOC.2006.49

Filename

4031232