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Process-Oriented, Flexible Composition of Web Services with UML

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Advanced Conceptual Modeling Techniques (ER 2002)

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The composition of elementary web services to larger-scale services has become an important means to enhance e-business collaborations. If such composite web services can also integrate legacy components that are not yet provided as web services, the number of possible compositions is increased. Following a process-oriented approach, the compositions can be described as control- and data-flow between available web services and components. This paper discusses the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS), an existing service composition language, and proposes UML-WSC as an alternative, visual language. For the advanced description of service interfaces, UML-WSC extends the type system of the established Web Service Definition Language (WSDL).

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  1. International Graduate School of Dynamic Intelligent Systems,  

    Sebastian Thöne

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Paderborn, 33098, Paderborn, Germany

    Sebastian Thöne, Ralph Depke & Gregor Engels

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  1. Computer Architecture Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

    Antoni Olivé

  2. Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan

    Masatoshi Yoshikawa

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, M5S 3E4, Canada

    Eric S. K. Yu

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Thöne, S., Depke, R., Engels, G. (2003). Process-Oriented, Flexible Composition of Web Services with UML. In: Olivé, A., Yoshikawa, M., Yu, E.S.K. (eds) Advanced Conceptual Modeling Techniques. ER 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2784. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45275-1_34

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