Automatic composition of E-services that export their behavior

Abstract

The main focus of this paper is on automatic e-Service composition. We start by developing a framework in which the exported behavior of an e-Service is described in terms of its possible executions (execution trees). Then we specialize the framework to the case in which such exported behavior (i.e., the execution tree of the e-Service) is represented by a finite state machine. In this specific setting, we analyze the complexity of synthesizing a composition, and develop sound and complete algorithms to check the existence of a composition and to return one such a composition if one exists. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first attempt to provide an algorithm for the automatic synthesis of e-Service composition, that is both proved to be correct, and has an associated computational complexity characterization. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.