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Composing Semantic Web Services Online and an Evaluation Framework

Authors:
George Markou
Ioannis Refanidis

Keywords: Web service composition, non-determinism, OWL-S

Abstract:
This article presents an approach for semantic web service composition using Artificial Intelligence planning techniques. Our research prototype, MADSWAN, is able to support various stages of web service composition, both manually and automatically. It comprises a semantic web service registry, an editor of semantic description files, as well as manual and automatic web service composition modules. The system adheres to the reusable nature of web services, by utilizing existing open source projects as sub-elements. Furthermore, it tackles the problem’s inherent non-determinism through the use of planning techniques, particularly contingency planning. Finally, we designed a set of evaluation benchmarks for web service composition systems, based on an existing collection of semantically annotated web services, and applied it in part to MADSWAN with very encouraging results.

Pages: 114 to 131

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2013. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2013

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2652