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Integrating heterogeneous web services from an end user perspective

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Bipin Upadhyaya,

Ying ZouAuthors Info & Claims

MIDDLEWARE '12: Proceedings of the 9th Middleware Doctoral Symposium of the 13th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference

Article No.: 7, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/2405688.2405695

Published: 03 December 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Service composition combines a set of available Web services using control flows to create a more complex service. The service composition is a complex process which is challenging even for experienced users to discover and select appropriate service among a set of similar services. The available tools and techniques for service composition either are too complicated or require technical knowledge (such as script language). Moreover the heterogeneity in service description language and communication protocols make service composition more difficult. In our research, we propose an approach that allows non-technical users (i.e., end users) to easily compose heterogeneous Web resources with different communication protocol. The goal of this research is fulfilled on two stages: 1) identifying integrable Web resources from different Web applications and SOAP-based Web services; and 2) providing approaches to discover and compose Web resources that are capable of accomplishing user's activities. We propose a framework that assists a user to discover and compose services.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39995-4_4

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MIDDLEWARE '12: Proceedings of the 9th Middleware Doctoral Symposium of the 13th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference

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ISBN:9781450316118

DOI:10.1145/2405688

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Upadhyaya BXiao HZou YNg JLau A(2013)A framework for composing personalized web resourcesThe Personal Web10.5555/2554612.2554616(65-86)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2554612.2554616
Upadhyaya BXiao HZou YNg JLau A(2013)A Framework for Composing Personalized Web ResourcesThe Personal Web10.1007/978-3-642-39995-4_4(65-86)Online publication date: 2013
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39995-4_4

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