Many providers offer Web APIs that expose their services to an ever increasing number of mobile and desktop applications. However, all interactions have to be explicitly programmed by humans. Automated composition of those Web APIs could make it considerably easier to integrate different services from different providers. In this paper, we therefore present an automated Web API composition meth...

Purpose – Automated composition of semantic web services has become one of the recent critical issues in today’s web environment. Despite the importance of artificial intelligence (AI)-planning techniques for web service composition, previous works in that area do not address security issues, which is the focus of this paper. The purpose of this paper is to propose an approach to achieve securi...