Towards semantic service selection for B2B integration
Andreas Friesen, Kioumars Namiri · 2006
There are various B2B integration scenarios where a requester can choose among several services of the same or different service providers offering similar service capabilities satisfying the request. The choice of the service to be invoked often depends on the parameters of the actual request and preferences of the requester. In this paper we introduce a solution for a dynamic (at run-time) web service selection based on semantic interpretation of offered service capabilities and the parameters specifying the actual request. The proposed solution takes into account special conditions on service usage either contractually agreed offline between requester and provider or specified by the requester without the knowledge of the provider. In general, those conditions restrict the interpretation of the original service capabilities as offered by a service provider and influence the choice of a service.