E-services: a look behind the curtain

  • Authors:
  • Richard Hull;Michael Benedikt;Vassilis Christophides;Jianwen Su

  • Affiliations:
  • Murray Hill, New Jersey;Lisle, Illinois;Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Vassilika Vouton, Crete;University of California, Santa Barbara, California

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twenty-second ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The emerging paradigm of electronic services promises to bring to distributed computation and services the flexibility that the web has brought to the sharing of documents. An understanding of fundamental properties of e-service composition is required in order to take full advantage of the paradigm. This paper examines proposals and standards for e-services from the perspectives of XML, data management, workflow, and process models. Key areas for study are identified, including behavioral service signatures, verification and synthesis techniques for composite services, analysis of service data manipulation commands, and XML analysis applied to service specifications. We give a sample of the relevant results and techniques in each of these areas.