Automatic Composition of Semantic Web Services.
Ruoyan Zhang, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Boanerges Aleman-Meza · 2003
With the growing number of Web services, importance of composing existing Web Services into more complex services in order to achieve new and more useful solutions is increasing. However, in order to automatically compose new services, existing services need to be encoded in a machine understandable form. The semantics of a service can be described by annotating it with respect to service ontologies. The goals of automatic composition include reducing the complexity of creating composite services as well as choosing an optimal composition among possible options. This paper describes the Interface-Matching Automatic Composition technique that aims for generation of complex Web Services automatically by capturing user’s expected outcomes when a set of inputs are provided; the result is a sequence of services whose combined execution achieves the user goals.