Model-based discovery of Web services
Jan Hendrik Hausmann, Reiko Heckel, Marc Lohmann · 2004
Web Services are software components that can be discovered and employed at runtime using the Internet. Conflicting requirements towards the nature of these services can be identified. From a business perspective, Web Services promise to enable the formation of ad-hoc cooperation's on a global scale. From a technical perspective, a high degree of standardization and rigorous specifications are required to enable the automated integration of Web Services. A suitable technology for Web Services has to mediate these needs for flexibility and stability. In this paper, a new approach to the description of Web Service semantics is introduced. It is a visual approach based on the use of software models and graph transformations and allows for the description of innovative services while providing a precise matching concept.