Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities
ISWC '02 Proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web
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CAiSE '02/ WES '02 Revised Papers from the International Workshop on Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web
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SCM-9 Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on System Configuration Management
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TES '02 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Technologies for E-Services
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WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web
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The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Policy-Based Web Service Composition
RIDE '04 Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Web Services for E-Commerce and E-Government Applications (RIDE'04)
Compatibility Verification for Web Service Choreography
ICWS '04 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services
QoS computation and policing in dynamic web service selection
Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters
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ACM SIGMOD Record
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CAiSE'03 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
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RR'07 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Web reasoning and rule systems
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Web services enable the design, integration, composition, and deployment of distributed and heterogeneous software. While most syntactic issues in composition have been taken care of somewhat satisfactorily, several semantic issues remain unresolved. In this paper, we consider issues relating to binding and execution of composite services. A Web service composition or composite activity consists of a set of (basic or composite) activities with some ordering constraints. In general, an arbitrary collection of execution instances of the individual activities may not constitute an execution of the composite activity; the individual execution instances must be “compatible”. In this paper, we propose (a) a simple formalism to express the compatibility requirements in a composition, and (b) a methodology for (i) the selection of a composite service provider for a composite activity and (ii) the selection of (other) service providers for the constituent activities of the composite activity, to ensure an execution of the composition satisfying the compatibility requirements.