A survey: Approaches to web service composition for the semantic web

Abstract

Service composition is gaining popularity because a composite service can perform functions that an individual service cannot. There are multiple web services available on the web for different tasks. The semantic web is an advanced form of the current web in which all contents have well-defined meanings due to nature, allowing machines to process web contents automatically. A web service composition is a collection of web services that collaborate to achieve a common goal. They reveal the established methods for web service composition in both syntactic and semantic environments. In this research, to begin, make a list of the existing composition techniques. These approaches were classified based on how the service descriptions were processed, which could be syntactic or semantic-based service processes. This study reviewed over 14 articles in this field and concluded the merits of the methodologies used to implement web service composition.