Title: From web services annotation and composition to web services domain analysis

Authors: Peep Kungas, Mihhail Matskin

Addresses: SOA Trader, Ltd., Tallinn, Estonia; Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden. ' Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden

Abstract: Automated web service annotation and composition are seen as complimentary technologies. While automated annotation allows to extract web service semantics from existing WSDL documents, automated composition uses this semantics for integrating applications. Anyway, automated composition can be applied not only to constructing new but also to analysis of existent web services. Therefore applicability of both methodologies is essential for increasing the productivity of information system integration. In this paper we propose application of automated composition for analysing web services domains. We identify and analyse some general web services properties in the context of industrial and public web services.

Keywords: automated web service composition; web service annotation; formal semantics; domain analysis; web services.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2007.017610

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2007 Vol.2 No.3, pp.157 - 178

Published online: 20 Mar 2008 *

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