Integration of Web Services for Establishing Virtual Enterprises: An Agent-Based Perspective.
Zakaria Maamar, Ghazi I. Alkhatib · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2003
Web services are nowadays emerging as a major technology for achieving automated interactions between distributed and heterogeneous applications.Various technologies are behind this achievement including WSDL (Web Service Definition Language), UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (, and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol).These technologies aim at supporting the definition of Web services, their advertisement, and their binding for triggering purposes.The advantages of Web services have already been demonstrated and highlight their capacity to be composed into high-level business processes.Usually, composite services denote these business processes.Users who have needs to satisfy can trigger composite services.