Semantic Service Description and Compositions: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

For decades, researchers and practitioners develop various approaches such as Web Service technologies (e.g., UDDI, WSDL, SOAP) to address application integration problems. In particular, Web Service composition methods can solve complex service integrations. However, in highly dynamic environments, these manual service compositions still requires a lot of effort. To address this challenge, researchers have recently introduced semantic web service composition methods. The growing interest in this topic of semantic web service composition has led to an increasing number of approaches, which has not been systematically surveyed so far. Researchers have reported several surveys in the related areas such as web service composition or semantic web service search. However, to the best of our knowledge, none of them provides a survey about these semantic web service compositions in particular. Hence, this review aims to address this issue by identifying existing efforts on semantic web service compositions. The survey focuses on two aspects (i) semantic web service description, as it is an essential aspect for semantic service composition, (ii) semantic web service composition, to identify methods and their implementations on the real world problem.