Automatic derivation of DAML-S service specifications from UML business models

Abstract

Today's trend in Web engineering is the automation of Web service interoperation. With this aim, web content is noted with semantic information, using Web Semantic languages. Web Services is becoming the leading technology that provides functionality of an enterprise. This functionality carries out the activities that form a process. Business processes are a set of activities that can be seen as offered business services. Therefore, this article presents a process to derive web services specifications and service composition from business models. The paper considers DAML-S as the web services markup language to represent the description of web services and specify their composition. Rational Unified Process business model is the language used as input. The article shows the set of derivation rules that allows the atomatic generation of DAML-S modules from business models. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.