A Foundational Vision of e-Services

Proc. of the 2nd Int. Workshop on Web Services, e-Business, and the Semantic Web (WES). Volume 3095 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2003.

In this paper we propose a foundational vision of e-Services, in which we distinguish between the external behavior of an e-Service as seen by clients, and the internal behavior as seen by a deployed application running the e-Service. Such behaviors are formally expressed as execution trees describing the interactions of the e-Service with its client and with other e-Services. Using these notions we formally define e-Service composition in a general way, without relying on any specific representation formalism. We have also provide a classification of e-Services based on relevant properties of the execution trees.

@inproceedings{WES-2003,
   title = "A Foundational Vision of e-Services",
   year = "2003",
   author = "Daniela Berardi and Diego Calvanese and De Giacomo, Giuseppe
and Maurizio Lenzerini and Massimo Mecella",
   booktitle = "Proc. of the 2nd Int. Workshop on Web Services, e-Business,
and the Semantic Web (WES)",
   pages = "28--40",
   volume = "3095",
   series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
   doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-25982-4_4",
}