MODELLING WEB SERVICES INTEROPERABILITY

S. Haddad, T. Melliti, P. Moreaux, S. Rampacek

2004

Abstract

With the development of the semantic Web, the specification of Web services has evolved from a “remote procedure call” style to a behavioral description including standard constructors of programming languages. Such a transformation introduces new problems since traditional clients will not be able to interact with these sophisticated services. In this work, we develop a generic agent capable to fully control the interaction process with a Web service given its XLANG behavioral description (XLANG being one of these languages). At first, we give an operational semantic to XLANG in terms of timed transition systems. Then we define a relation between two communicating systems which formalizes the concept of a correct interaction and we propose an algorithm which either detects ambiguity of the Web service or generates a timed deterministic automaton which controls the agent behavior during the interaction with the service. Starting from these theoretical developments we have built a platform which ensures to a user the correct handling of any complex Web service dynamically discovered through the Web.

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Haddad S., Melliti T., Moreaux P. and Rampacek S. (2004). MODELLING WEB SERVICES INTEROPERABILITY . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 287-295. DOI: 10.5220/0002648802870295


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@conference{iceis04,
author={S. Haddad and T. Melliti and P. Moreaux and S. Rampacek},
title={MODELLING WEB SERVICES INTEROPERABILITY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={287-295},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002648802870295},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - MODELLING WEB SERVICES INTEROPERABILITY
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Haddad S.
AU - Melliti T.
AU - Moreaux P.
AU - Rampacek S.
PY - 2004
SP - 287
EP - 295
DO - 10.5220/0002648802870295