The Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planning method is conceived of as a useful method for Web service composition as well as classical task planning. However, there are no complete successes of service composition by HTN as yet. The reason is the Web service composition process involves the interactive dataflow between variables in preconditions and input/output parameters of services. Since v...

This letter describes combining OSGi and Web Services in service composition. According to our approach, a composite service is described in WS-BPEL. Each component service in the description may be resolved to either an OSGi service or Web Service at runtime. The proposal can overcome current limitations with OSGi technology in terms of its geographical coverage and candidate service populatio...

In current service-oriented applications, each individual Web service usually cannot satisfy users’ requests for Web services, but the functionalities of different Web services may be integrated to accomplish requested task. This process is called Web service composition, and the resulted service is called composite Web service. The discovery and composition of Web services are two important re...

Dynamic Web service composition is a process of building a new value added service using available services to satisfy the requester’s complex functional need. In this paper we propose the broker based architecture for dynamic Web service composition. The broker plays a major role in effective and efficient discovery of Web services for the individual tasks of the complex need. The broker maint...

The task of automatically composing Web services involves two main composition processes, vertical and horizontal composition. Vertical composition consists of defining an appropriate combination of simple processes to perform a composition task. Horizontal composition process consists of determining the most appropriate Web service, from among a set of functionally equivalent ones for each com...

Web services need to be orchestrated to achieve complex demand. However, existing approaches on Web service composition are mainly based on syntax match. It is very difficult to compose heterogeneous Web services with syntax in accord with function. Gradually, Petri net becomes a powerful system modeling and analysis tools research discrete event dynamic system. In order to solve this problem, ...

As Web services become widespread, many complex applications require service composition to cope with high scalability and heterogeneity. Centralized Web service composition approaches are not sufficient as they always limit the scalability and stability of the systems. How to efficiently compose and adapt Web services under decentralized environments has become a critical issue, and important ...

Web service composition is a means of building enterprises virtually by knitting relevant web services on the fly. Automatic web service composition is done dynamically at runtime. Extensive research has been done in the field of automatic web service composition. However all the works focus on providing client oriented results and hence there is less industry adoption of composition technology...