TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a capability model for web service composition
AU - Li, Wenbin
AU - Badr, Youakim
AU - Biennier, Frédérique
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Most approaches for Web service compositions focus on the technical level as they specify "how-to" achieve the composition instead of providing casual users with means to express "what-to" achieve their business objectives. This new mindset requires extending Web services with the concept of capability, which describes what a service can do to reduce the gap between Web services and business processes. In this paper, we propose a three-layer Web service capability model to capture objectives, to specify actions that achieve objectives, and establish links between capabilities. Based on this model, the capability matching process does not only discover Web services from high level requirements expressed by Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR), but it also derives constraints on Web services.
AB - Most approaches for Web service compositions focus on the technical level as they specify "how-to" achieve the composition instead of providing casual users with means to express "what-to" achieve their business objectives. This new mindset requires extending Web services with the concept of capability, which describes what a service can do to reduce the gap between Web services and business processes. In this paper, we propose a three-layer Web service capability model to capture objectives, to specify actions that achieve objectives, and establish links between capabilities. Based on this model, the capability matching process does not only discover Web services from high level requirements expressed by Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR), but it also derives constraints on Web services.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICWS.2013.86
DO - 10.1109/ICWS.2013.86
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84891822512
SN - 9780768550251
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE 20th International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2013
SP - 609
EP - 610
BT - Proceedings - IEEE 20th International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2013
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2013 IEEE 20th International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2013
Y2 - 27 June 2013 through 2 July 2013
ER -