A Context-Based Approach to Reconciling Data Interpretation Conflicts in Web Services Composition

Xitong Li (1) , Stuart E. Madnick (2) , Hongwei Zhu (3)

1 GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC
2 MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 UMass Lowell - University of Massachusetts [Lowell]

We present a comprehensive classification of data misinterpretation problems and develop an approach to automatic detection and reconciliation of data interpretation conflicts in Web services composition. The approach uses a lightweight ontology augmented with modifiers, contexts, and atomic conversions between the contexts. The WSDL descriptions of Web services are annotated to establish correspondences to the ontology. Given the naive Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) specification of the desired Web services composition with data interpretation conflicts, the approach can automatically detect the conflicts and produce the corresponding mediated BPEL. Finally, we develop a prototype to validate and evaluate the approach.

Keywords: Interpretation conflicts; Web services

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Business administration; Operations management and information technology

Xitong Li, Stuart E. Madnick, Hongwei Zhu. A Context-Based Approach to Reconciling Data Interpretation Conflicts in Web Services Composition. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2013, 13 (1), pp.NC. ⟨10.1145/2532638⟩. ⟨hal-01069122⟩