Title: A high-level specification for virtual providers

Authors: Michael Altenhofen, Andreas Friesen, Jens Lemcke, Egon Borger

Addresses: SAP Research, CEC Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe D-76131, Germany. ' SAP Research, CEC Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe D-76131, Germany. ' SAP Research, CEC Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe D-76131, Germany. ' Universita di Pisa, Dipartimento di Informatica, Pisa I-56125, Italy

Abstract: In this paper, we define a high-level model to mathematically capture the semantical meaning of abstract Virtual Providers (VPs), their instantiation and their composition into rich mediator structures. We will show how this model can be sucessfully applied to two application scenarios, web service protocol mediation and Semantic Web Service(SWS) discovery.

Keywords: virtual providers; mediators; protocol mediation; semantic web services; SWS discovery; message-based interaction; service-oriented architectures; SOA; business process integration.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBPIM.2006.012625

International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, 2006 Vol.1 No.4, pp.267 - 278

Published online: 27 Feb 2007 *

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