A reuse-based approach to the correct and automatic composition of web-services

  • Authors:
  • Paola Inverardi;Massimo Tivoli

  • Affiliations:
  • University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila (AQ), ITALY;University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila (AQ), ITALY

  • Venue:
  • International workshop on Engineering of software services for pervasive environments: in conjunction with the 6th ESEC/FSE joint meeting
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Service oriented technologies, such as web services, can be considered one of the latest trends in distributed computing. Nowadays, the Internet arena is populated by an ever more increasing number of web services. This has led to the need for reuse-based approaches to the automatic construction of new services as a correct composition of existing ones. A composition of services is correct when it respects the Service Level Specification (SLS) specified for the composite service to be built. To this end, we propose an extension of our previous work on the automatic component assembly. The aim of this extension is to propose an automatic and specification-based approach for constructing composite services from existing ones, which are discovered from a service repository. We instantiate the proposal in the context of web services. This work has to be considered as an ongoing work. In this paper, we also raise some research questions concerning the current gap between what we are able to do by means of the proposed extension and what still remains an open issue.