Most of the current workflow-based service composition frameworks and systems require processes to be predefined and services to be statically-bound, thus lacking necessary flexibility to adapt to frequent changes arising from domain/business/user rules and the dynamic Internet environment. This paper proposes a service composition framework based on a flexible workflow method, which enables a part of a process to be created by automatic service composition. In this paper, we propose a semi-automatic service composition framework which enables a part of a process to be created by automatic service composition. In this framework, we encapsulate those uncertain, dynamic and variable parts of a process into black-boxes with a set of rules at the modeling phase. While at the executing phrase, black-boxes are concretized by composing services according to the predefined rules automatically. This framework has been implemented in DartFlow-a service composition platform for the sharing of the TCM (Tradition Chinese Medicine) knowledge and services. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.
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Deng, S., Li, Y., Xia, H., Wu, J., & Wu, Z. (2006). Exploring the flexible workflow technology to automate service composition. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4185 LNCS, pp. 444–458). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11836025_43
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