C3Q: A Specification Model for Web Services Within Virtual Organizations

Abstract

Generic representation of web services is targeted, in order to generate machine readable specification of business processes that run at each partner organization within the virtual organization (VO). A holistic and formal service specification model is defined that can then be used unambiguously for discovery of business services, i.e. for finding a suitable service available at the VO to perform a given task. Especially, the proposed model, called C3Q, augments the description of service by its behavioral specification. A light extension of the WSDL documents is represented to specify all aspects of C3Q. Finally, a GUI is implemented to assist users with the behavioral description of the VO services.