Author:
Axel Martens
Affiliation:
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Component Systems Group, United States
Keyword(s):
Business Process Modeling, Web Service, BPEL4WS, UDDI, Process Model Matchmaking, Petri nets.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
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Business Process Management
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e-Business
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Enterprise Engineering
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Enterprise Information Systems
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Information Systems Analysis and Specification
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Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
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Knowledge-Based Systems
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Methodologies, Processes and Platforms
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Model-Driven Software Development
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Modeling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
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Modeling of Distributed Systems
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Software Engineering
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Symbolic Systems
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Systems Engineering
Abstract:
Emerging technologies and industrial standards in the field of Web services enable a much faster and easier cooperation of distributed partners. With the increasing number of enterprises that offer specific functionality in terms of Web services, discovery of matching partners becomes a serious issue. At the moment, discovery of Web services generally is based on meta-information (e. g. name, business category) and some technical aspects (e. g. interface, protocols). But, this selection might be to coarse grained for dynamic application integration, and there is much more information available. This paper describes a method to discover business partners based on the comparison of their behavior – specified in terms of their published Web service process models.