Automatic Web Service Composition Based on Service Interface Description.
Jingzhou Zhang, Shoujian Yu, Xiao-Kun Ge, Guowen Wu · 2006
Abstract- Composition of Web services has received much interest to support business-to-business or enterprise application integration. In our work, we build the composition method based on service interface description. Compared to previous work, our approach for composition only uses the information that is already available in service interface definitions. It does not require service providers describe their interfaces with semantic markup. We have proposed datatype matching and service composition algorithm. We use the measure of linguistic similarity between two datatypes. The similarity score calculated by our algorithm allows for flexible Web service composition. Users can define different score threshold for either relax or accurate service composition. We have conducted experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of our datatype matching algorithm. The results demonstrate that the matching algorithm has good precision and recall.