Orchestrating SOA Using Requirement Specifications and Domain Ontologies

Abstract

The composition of web services requires process designers to capture the goals of the service composition in a partial process model. Manually deriving the partial process model from the requirement specifications is not trivial. A clear understanding of the requirements, interaction among services, their inputs and outputs are precursors for developing the partial process models. To reduce the complexity, we propose an approach to guide process designers in deriving the partial process models by reusing the knowledge captured in requirement specifications and domain ontologies. The results of the evaluation shows that our approach is promising in terms of correctness and completeness.