Semantic Web Service Composition: The Web Service Challenge Perspective

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Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a software design paradigm for creating highly modular, distributed applications. Web services can implement well-defined, atomic functions which can be composed into high-level business processes. The composition of clearly separable modules is one of the key advantages of SOAs. This article provides an overview of research, challenges, and competitions in this domain. We first define and discuss the general notions of syntactical and semantic discovery/composition and the corresponding quality of service (QoS) features. One focus of this chapter is the Web Service Challenge (WSC), which has established an extensive body of knowledge and community of researchers in the area of web service composition. We discuss the structure, requirements, and utilities provided in the scope of this competition. The paper furthermore includes a detailed literature review of the activities of the WSC event in context of the related initiatives.

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  1. 1.Nature Inspired Computation and Applications LaboratorySchool of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)HefeiChina
  2. 2.University of Miami, Graduate SchoolCoral GablesUSA
  3. 3.XXXMunichGermany

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