Choreography of intelligent e-Services

W. L. Ntshinga
Tshwane University of Technology

ICSE’10, May 2-8, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa.

 

Abstract:

  Electronic Services (e-Services), referred to as a set of automated enterprise services using ICT to achieve a business goal, have significantly contributed to the growth of e-commerce, science, and telecommunications. However, applications that use e-Services seldom interoperate effectively, and this restricts the benefits they offer. The main purpose of e-Services is to have an anthology of network-resident software services accessed via
standardised protocols whose meaning can be regularly discovered and integrated into applications. Our study
supplements the definition provided for e-Service by complementing it with an intelligent capability for the purpose of effective and efficient choreography of processes, hence the term “intelligent e-Services”. The aim of the study is to propose the composition of intelligent e-Services in a manner which encourages the interoperability of a range of services pertaining to various autonomous virtual enterprises (VEs). It is expected that a framework that defines and supports the composition of intelligent e-Services will be formed. It is also anticipated that the study will play an important role in contributing to the formation of dynamic
virtual enterprises (DVEs) as an application business scenario.

Keywords:  Choreography, composition, e-Services, interoperability.

1. BACKGROUND

  interoperability vs. interaction

 

  two forms of service composition and collaboration:

  -- orchestration

  -- choreography

 

  This short paper is organised as follows.

  1) Section 2 presents the problem statement for this study.

  2) Section 3 presents the methodology that will be followed for this study.

  3) The conclusion appears in section 4.

2. PROBLEM STATEMENT

  author's idea:

  -- intlligence

  -- semantic

 

  The four primary objectives of the study are:

  (1) to investigate the state of the art in the characterisation of e-Service, Web Services, and Semantic
Web Services characterisation;

  (2) to provide an appropriate definition and characterisation of an intelligent e-Service (IeS);

  (3) to design and develop a framework that will facilitate the choreography of IeSs; 

  (4) to model and evaluate a real-life business scenario using IeSs. 

 

  research questions:

  (1) What is an IeS, and what are the fundamental attributes/properties that make up an IeS?

  (2) What is the appropriate approach for modelling the choreography of IeSs?

  (3) What is an appropriate technical environment for facilitating the choreography of IeSs?

  (4) How can a real-life business scenario be modeled and applied using the choreography of IeSs?

 

3. METHODOLOGY

 

4. CONCLUSION