Towards distributed dynamic web service composition

The creation of a custom-built composite web service given a set of available services involves identifying which services to use, the order in which they should be executed, and how to orchestrate the flow of control and data through the sequence(s). Automating such a task is a computationally intensive effort better distributed between multiple agents. We present a client-server framework within which the efforts of composition creation and management are shared by the central registry and client making the request. Additionally, we present a composition algorithm that addresses apart of the task. ©2007 IEEE.