DIANE – An Integrated Approach to Automated Service Discovery, Matchmaking and Composition

@INPROCEEDINGS{KKKS07,
  author = {Ulrich K"uster and Birgitta K"onig-Ries and Michael Klein and Mirco
	Stern},
  title = {DIANE - A Matchmaking-Centered Framework for Automated Service Discovery,
	Composition, Binding and Invocation},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007)},
  year = {2007},
  month = {May},
  address = {Banff, Alberta, Canada},
  abstract = {Automated matching of semantic service descriptions is the key to
	automatic service discovery and binding. But when trying to ¯nd
	a match for a certain request it may often happen, that the request
	cannot be serviced by a single offer but could be handled by combining
	existing o®ers. In this case automatic service composition is needed.
	Although automatic composition is an active field of research it
	is mainly viewed as a planning problem and treated separatedly from
	service discovery. In this paper we argue that an integrated approach
	to the problem is better than seperating these issues as is usually
	done. We propose an approach that integrates service composition
	into service discovery and matchmaking to match service requests
	that ask for multiple connected effects, discuss general issues
	involved in describing and matching such services and present an
	efficient algorithm implementing our ideas.},
}