Web Service Composition on the Environment Level

Abstract

Service-oriented computing (SOC) promises a world of cooperating services loosely connected, creating dynamic business processes and agile applications. Service composition plays a very important role in it. One important problem related to service composition is about what the content of service description is. Most approaches focus on the description about web services themselves, and fail to consider the behaviour of the services in composition. This paper introduces a composition approach on the environment level. The basic idea of it is to develop a model-based approach by using the stability character of environment to encapsulate the changing of the service and the request. Our approach both facilitate to improve the composition efficiency and is more appropriate for compositing complex services or behaviour services based on its’ behaviour. A running travel example is used to illustrate our approach.