Certain investigations on enhancing ontology driven web service composition

Abstract

The advancements in the area of web services have enabled the business organizations to conveniently publish find and invoke them across the web Hence those organizations conceal their core business and reveal other application services over the web The proliferation of such interorganizational services increases its search space and requires efficient mechanisms to locate and invoke them Web service composition is the ability to integrate and assemble individual web services into business processes It improves reusability lessens duplication and improves modifiability of the web services The key challenge in web service composition lies in the ability to correctly identify and compose web services at runtime that satisfies the functional and non functional requirements of the user The research focus on web service composition has gained its popularity and strives to cater to these challenges Web services are self contained modular applications accessible via the Web through Open Standard languages which provide a set of functionalities to businesses or individuals Web service descriptions are used to advertise service capabilities behavior and quality It serves as the basis for the discovery and composition of services Web service discovery means finding a web service that could solve the user request newline