Abstract
In this paper, novel ideas are presented for solving the automated web service composition problem. Some of the possible real world problems such as partial observability of the environment, nondeterministic effects of web services and service execution failures are solved through a dynamic planning approach. The proposed approach is based on a novel AI planner that is designed for working in highly dynamic environments under time constraints, namely Simplanner. World altering service calls are done according to the WS-Coordination and WS-Business Activity web service transaction specifications in order to physically recover from failure situations and prevent the undesired side effects of the aborted web service composition efforts.
Article PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Explore related subjects
Discover the latest articles, news and stories from top researchers in related subjects.Avoid common mistakes on your manuscript.
References
Rao J, Su X (2004) A survey of automated web service composition methods. In: Proceedings of 1st international workshop on semantic web services and web process composition, pp 43–54
Milanovic N, Malek M (2004) Current solutions for web service composition. IEEE Trans Internet Comput 8(6):51–59
Srivastava B, Koehler J (2003) Web service composition—current solutions and open problems. In: Proceedings of ICAPS’03 workshop on planning for web services, Trento, Italy, 2003, pp 28–35
Agarwal V, et al (2008) Understanding approaches for web service composition and execution. In: Proceedings of the 1st Bangalore annual compute conference, India, 2008, pp 1–8
Alamri A, Eid M, Saddik AE (2006) Classification of the state-of-the-art dynamic web services composition techniques. Int J Web Grid Serv 2(2):148–166
Polleres A (2004) AI planning for web service composition. Presentation, Ilog, Paris, France, 2004. http://axel.deri.ie/~axepol/presentations/20040907-paris-ilog-AIplanning4WSC.ppt
Sapena O, Onaindia E (2007) Planning in highly dynamic environments: an anytime approach for planning under time constraints. J Appl Intell 29(1):90–109
OASIS (2006) Web services business activity specification. http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-tx/wsba/2006/06
OWL-S Semantic markup for web services. http://www.w3.org/Submission/OWL-S/
Java Reflection. http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/reflect/index.html
Sirin E, Parsia B, Wu D, Hendler J, Nau D (2004) HTN planning for web service composition using SHOP2. J Web Semant 1(4):377–396
Nau D, Au TC, Ilghami O, Kuter U, Murdock W, Wu D, Yaman F (2003) SHOP2: an HTN planning system. J Artif Intell Res (JAIR) 20:379–404
OASIS (2006) Web services coordination specification. http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-tx/wscoor/2006/06
Klusch M, Gerber A, Schmidt M (2005) Semantic web service composition planning with OWLS-XPlan. In: Proceedings of the AAAI fall symposium on semantic web and agents, Arlington VA, USA. AAAI Press, Menlo Park
Hoffmann J (2003) The metric-FF planning system: translating ignoring delete lists to numeric state variables. J Artif Intell Res (JAIR) 20:291–341
Klusch M, Renner K-U (2006) Fast dynamic re-planning of composite OWL-S services. In: Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM international conferences on web intelligence and intelligent agent technology—workshops, 2006, pp 134–137
Peer J (2004) A PDDL based tool for automatic web service composition. In: Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on principles and practice of semantic web reasoning, 2004, pp 149–163
Peer J (2005) Semantic service markup with SESMA. In: Proceedings of the web service semantics workshop (WSS’05) at the 14th international world wide web conference (WWW’05), 2005, Chiba, Japan, pp 100–116
Younes HLS, Simmons RG (2003) VHPOP: versatile heuristic partial order planner. J Artif Intell Res (JAIR) 20:405–430
Gerevini A, Saetti A, Serina I (2003) Planning through stochastic local search and temporal action graphs. J Artif Intell Res 20(1):239–290
Agarwal V, Dasgupta K, Karnik N, Kumar A, Kundu A, Mittal S, Srivastava B (2005) A service creation environment based on end to end composition of web services. In: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on world wide web, Chiba, Japan, 2005, pp 128–137
WS-BPEL http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsbpel
Bartalos SP, Bieliková M (2008) Enhancing semantic web services composition with user interaction. In: Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on services computing (SCC), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2008, pp 503–506
Marconi SA, Pistore M, Traverso P (2008) Automated composition of web services: the ASTRO approach. IEEE Data Eng Bull 31(3):23–26
Digiampietri LA, Alcázar JJP, Medeiros CB (2008) AI planning in web services composition: a review of current approaches and a new solution. In: Proceedings of the XXVII Brazilian computer society conference (CSBC), July 2008
Wiesner K, Vaculín R, Kollingbaum MJ, Sycara KP (2009) Recovery mechanisms for semantic web services. In: Meier R, Terzis S (eds) International conference on distributed applications and interoperable systems (DAIS). LNCS, vol 5053. Springer, Berlin, pp 100–105
Kazhamiakin R, Bertoli P, Paolucci M, Pistore M, Wagner M (2009) Having services “YourWay!”: towards user-centric composition of mobile services. In: Future Internet FIS 2008. LNCS, vol 5468. Springer, Berlin, pp 94–106
Bryce D, Kambhampati S (2007) A tutorial on planning graph-based reachability heuristics. AI Mag 28(1):47–83
Ghallab M, Howe A, Knoblock C, McDermott D, Ram A, Veloso M, Weld D, Wilkins D (1998) PDDL: the planning domain definition language, AIPS-98 planning committee
Smith MK, Welty C, McGuinness DL OWL web ontology language guide. http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/
Christensen E, Curbera F, Meredith G, Weerawarana S Web services description language (WSDL) 1.1. http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl
Kim H, Kim I (2007) Mapping semantic web service descriptions to planning domain knowledge. Proc IFMBE 14(1):388–391
OWLS2PDDL tool http://projects.semwebcentral.org/projects/owls2pddl/
WSIF Web services invocation framework. http://ws.apache.org/wsif/
Axis Apache web services project. http://ws.apache.org/axis/
OASIS (2006) Web services atomic transaction specification. http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-tx/wsat/2006/06
Erven H, Hicker G, Huemer C, Zaptletal M (2007) The web services-business activity-initiator (WS-BA-I) protocol: an extension to the web services-business activity specification. In: IEEE international conference on web services (ICWS), 2007, Salt Lake City, pp 216–224
Kandula Apache WS-transaction project. http://ws.apache.org/kandula/, http://ws.apache.org/axis/
OWLS-XPLAN http://projects.semwebcentral.org/projects/owls-xplan/
Mindswap Web service composer software. http://www.mindswap.org/~evren/composer/
Srivastava B (2004) A software framework for building planners. In: Proceedings of knowledge based computer systems (KBCS), 2004, Hyderabad, pp 382–392
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Kuzu, M., Cicekli, N.K. Dynamic planning approach to automated web service composition. Appl Intell 36, 1–28 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-010-0238-z
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-010-0238-z