A PDDL based Tool for Automatic Web Service Composition
ISSN
0302-9743
ISBN
3-540-22961-2
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2004-09-06
Author(s)
Peer, Joachim
Editor(s)
Ohlbach, Hans Jürgen
Abstract (De)
One of the motivations for research in semantic web services is to automatically compose web service operations to solve given problems. The idea of using AI planning software to this end has been suggested by several papers. The present paper follows this approach but argues that the diversity of the web service domains is best addressed by a flexible combination of complementary reasoning techniques and planning systems. We present a tool that transforms web service composition problems into AI planning problems and delegates them to the planners most suitable for the particular planning task. The tool uses PDDL, a language supported by a wide range of planning engines, as a transfer format. The present paper describes the tool and its strategies to cope with the problems of incomplete information, various types of web service indeterminism, stateful services and structurally rich goal specifications.
Language
German
Keywords
Web services
Semantic Web services
Service composition
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Principles and practice of semantic web reasoning
Publisher
Springer
Publisher place
Berlin
Start page
149
End page
163
Pages
15
Event Title
20th International Conference on Logic Programming
Event Location
St. Malo, France
Event Date
06.-10.09.2004
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
16503