An Algorithm for Automatic Service Composition

Eduardo Silva, Luís Ferreira Pires, Marten van Sinderen

2007

Abstract

Telecommunication companies are struggling to provide their users with value-added services. These services are expected to be context-aware, attentive and personalized. Since it is not economically feasible to build services separately by hand for each individual user, service providers are searching for alternatives to automate service creation. The IST-SPICE project aims at developing a platform for the development and deployment of innovative value-added services. In this paper we introduce our algorithm to cope with the task of automatic composition of services. The algorithm considers that every available service is semantically annotated. Based on a user/developer service request a matching service is composed in terms of component services. The composition follows a semantic graph-based approach, on which atomic services are iteratively composed based on services' functional and non-functional properties.

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Silva E., Ferreira Pires L. and van Sinderen M. (2007). An Algorithm for Automatic Service Composition . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing - Volume 1: ACT4SOC, (ICSOFT 2007) ISBN 978-989-8111-08-1, pages 65-74. DOI: 10.5220/0001348700650074


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@conference{act4soc07,
author={Eduardo Silva and Luís Ferreira Pires and Marten van Sinderen},
title={An Algorithm for Automatic Service Composition},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing - Volume 1: ACT4SOC, (ICSOFT 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={65-74},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001348700650074},
isbn={978-989-8111-08-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing - Volume 1: ACT4SOC, (ICSOFT 2007)
TI - An Algorithm for Automatic Service Composition
SN - 978-989-8111-08-1
AU - Silva E.
AU - Ferreira Pires L.
AU - van Sinderen M.
PY - 2007
SP - 65
EP - 74
DO - 10.5220/0001348700650074