A Facilitator to Discover and Compose Services

In this paper, we present our approach of facilitator that allows automatic service composition in distributed systems. We propose a facilitator based on ontologies and knowledge representation that allows clients to discover a service and to get the result of the service execution without direct interactions with their providers. We extend the functionality of the facilitator to be a composition engine and we show how it composes services to satisfy the client's requests.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ECOWS
• Authors: Oussama Kassem Zein, Yvon Kermarrec
• Keywords: Automatic Service Composition, Distributed Systems, ECOWS 2006, Facilitator, Internet Technology