TY - JOUR
T1 - Web services composition
T2 - A decade's overview
AU - Sheng, Quan Z.
AU - Qiao, Xiaoqiang
AU - Vasilakos, Athanasios V.
AU - Szabo, Claudia
AU - Bourne, Scott
AU - Xu, Xiaofei
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Service-oriented computing (SOC) represents a paradigm for building distributed computing applications over the Internet. In the past decade, Web services composition has been an active area of research and development endeavors for application integration and interoperation. Although Web services composition has been heavily investigated, several issues related to dependability, ubiquity, personalization, among others, still need to be addressed, especially giving the recent rise of several new computing paradigms such as Cloud computing, social computing, and Web of Things. This article overviews the life cycle of Web services composition and surveys the main standards, research prototypes, and platforms. These standards, research prototypes, and platforms are assessed using a set of assessment criteria identified in the article. The paper also outlines several research opportunities and challenges for Web services composition.
AB - Service-oriented computing (SOC) represents a paradigm for building distributed computing applications over the Internet. In the past decade, Web services composition has been an active area of research and development endeavors for application integration and interoperation. Although Web services composition has been heavily investigated, several issues related to dependability, ubiquity, personalization, among others, still need to be addressed, especially giving the recent rise of several new computing paradigms such as Cloud computing, social computing, and Web of Things. This article overviews the life cycle of Web services composition and surveys the main standards, research prototypes, and platforms. These standards, research prototypes, and platforms are assessed using a set of assessment criteria identified in the article. The paper also outlines several research opportunities and challenges for Web services composition.
KW - Composition life cycle
KW - Composition requirement
KW - Service composition challenge
KW - Web services composition
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84902459076&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ins.2014.04.054
DO - 10.1016/j.ins.2014.04.054
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84902459076
VL - 280
SP - 218
EP - 238
JO - Information Sciences
JF - Information Sciences
SN - 0020-0255
ER -