Demonstration of Web Services Configuration
Deborah Richards, Sander van Splunter, Frances M.T. Brazier, Marta Sabou, T. Heskes · Digital Academic REpository of VU University Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) · 2003
Introduction Web service composition can provide a value-chain between customers and suppliers. The increasing number of services, and thus possible combinations, demands the development of dynamic and automatic techniques for their composition. Current commercial solutions are limited and are primarily static and manual. Automation requires reasoning about (semantic descriptions of) the services. In this demonstration we present our initial work [2] involving the semantic description of Web services using DAML-S [3] and how our Agent Factory [1] has used these descriptions in its design process to derive a Web service configuration. 2. Web Service configuration Web Services are defined by the Stencil group as "loosely coupled, reusable software components that semantically encapsulate discrete functionality and are distributed and programmatically accessible over standard Internet protocols". The definition captures the self-contained, modular, composable and distributed nature of