Abstract

Automated Web service processing, composition and execution is a research area that has yielded different service description models that can be implemented using a wide array of standards and technologies. Due to the diversity of their underlying service description models and the specific operational standards and platforms they are using, it has been difficult to fairly compare various research solutions pertaining to Web service processing, composition and execution. All solutions require a Web service description repository, for example, to automatically compose and execute composite services. Different research endeavors have provided original and diverse solutions to these Web service processing problems, many of them being extensions to existing solutions using standard service description models. We propose a highly modular Web service description framework that can allow the user to import, export, search, modify, and enable the composition and execution of services described using different
service description models and/or standards. Our service description framework uses a simple and flexible interface to test and compare Web service processing, composition and execution models and algorithms. We evaluate our framework by creating specific instances of our framework to achieve concrete motivation
scenarios, which we do successfully, achieving all of our goals.