Automated Web Service Composition
Donal P. Murtagh · Trinity's Access to Research Output (TARA) (Trinity College Dublin) · 2004
Web content has traditionally been dominated by documents intended for human interpretation. However, the recent advent of Web Services has played a key role in evolving the Web from a mere document repository to a provider of services. The range of services available may be further expanded by composing Web Services together to create new services which provide novel functionality. The ability of Web Service composition to create new services which are capable of fulfilling a need that no single service can satisfy is its major benefit. Web Service composition also has the potential to make Web Service invocation more efficient by aggregrating disparate processes into a single service.