Authors:
Yacine Sam
1
;
Omar Boucelma
1
and
Mohand-Saïd Hacid
2
Affiliations:
1
LSIS–CNRS, Universite´ Aix-Marseille, France
;
2
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agent-Oriented Programming
;
B2B, B2C and C2C
;
B2C/B2B Considerations
;
Business and Social Applications
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Internet and Collaborative Computing
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Web Information Agents
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
In order to fulfill current customers requirements, companies and service providers need to supply a large panel of their products and services. Recently, this situation has led to the Mass Customizing Paradigm, meaning that products and services should be designed in such a way that makes it possible to deliver and adapt different configurations. The increasing number of services available on the Web, together with the heterogeneity of Web audiences, are among the main reasons that motivate the adoption of this paradigm to Web services technology. In this paper we describe an approach that allows automatic customization of Web services: a supplier configuration, published in a services repository, is automatically translated into another configuration that is better suitable for fulfilling customers’ needs.