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FECT: A Modelling Framework for Automatically Composing Web Services

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Advances in Web-Age Information Management (WAIM 2005)

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In this paper, we propose FECT, a new modelling framework for describing and composing heterogenous Web services to satisfy emergent requirements. In FECT, a three-dimension description pattern, i.e. the Environment, the Capability and the behavior Traces, has been proposed to describe Web services. FECT has the following features, which may distinguish it from other work. Firstly, the environment, with which Web services may interact, has been introduced for characterizing the context of Web services. Secondly, the capability of a Web service is captured as the effects on its environment. Thirdly, the composition process is accomplished by combining the traces of Web services.

This work was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60233010 and No.60496324), the National Key Research and Development Program (Grant No. 2002CB312004) of China, the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and MADIS of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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  1. Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences,  

    Lishan Hou

  2. Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS,  

    Lishan Hou & Zhi Jin

  3. Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, Beijing, 100080, P.R. China

    Zhi Jin

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  1. University of Edinburgh & Bell Laboratories,  

    Wenfei Fan

  2. College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

    Zhaohui Wu

  3. Dept. of E. I. E, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

    Jun Yang

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Hou, L., Jin, Z. (2005). FECT: A Modelling Framework for Automatically Composing Web Services. In: Fan, W., Wu, Z., Yang, J. (eds) Advances in Web-Age Information Management. WAIM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3739. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11563952_29

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