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A framework for REST services discovery and composition

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The increasing number of Restful web services/Rest APIs and their adoption by leading Internet companies grabbed the attention of the industry as well as research fields that aim to resolve Restful services discovery and composition challenges. This paper will try to address Restful services discovery and composition problems using a semantic services description. Based on WSMO-Lite, a lightweight ontology for web service semantics, we will present a framework for Restful services description, discovery and composition. We will explore WSMO-Lite Restful service description using hRESTS and MicroWSMO, two HTML microformat for service HTML document annotations to propose an integrated discovery and composition solution. Our discovery approach will be based on service categories and inputs/outputs matching. We will define a graph-based composition solution for Restful services using a directed acyclic graph specifying the implicit services execution order driven by input/output matching. Having obtained this composition graph, we will apply an optimal composition search algorithm to extract the best composition solution for user request.

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Gamha, Y. A framework for REST services discovery and composition. SOCA 17, 259–275 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11761-023-00376-6

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