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Dynamic Discovery, Creation and Invocation of Type Adaptors for Web Service Workflow Harmonisation


PhD Abstract

Service-oriented architectures have evolved to support the composition and utilisation of heterogeneous resources, such as services and data repositories, whose deployments can span both physical and organisational boundaries. The Semantic Web Service paradigm facilitates the construction of workflows over such resources using annotations that express the meaning of the service through a shared conceptualisation. While this aids non expert users in the composition of meaningful workflows, sophisticated middleware is required to cater for the fact that service providers and consumers often assume different data formats for conceptually equivalent information. When syntactic mismatches occur, some form of workflow harmonisation is required to ensure that data incompatibilities are resolved, a step we refer to as syntactic mediation. Current solutions are entirely manual; users must consider the low-level interoperability issues and insert Type Adaptor components into the workflow by hand, contradicting the Semantic Web Service ideology...


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Publications generated as part of his PhD

2007

Szomszor, M. (2007) Dynamic Discovery, Creation and Invocation of Type Adaptors for Web Service Workflow Harmonisation. PhD thesis, University of Southampton.

2006

Szomszor, M., Payne, T. R. and Moreau, L. (2006) Automated Syntactic Medation for Web Service Integration. In: IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006), SEPTEMBER 2006, Chicago, USA.

Szomszor, M., Payne, T. R. and Moreau, L. (2006) Dynamic Discovery of Composable Type Adapters for Practical Web Services Workflow. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2006, SEPTEMBER 2006, Nottingham, 2006.

2005

Szomszor, M., Payne, T. R. and Moreau, L. (2005) Using Semantic Web Technology to Automate Data Integration in Grid and Web Service Architectures. In: Semantic Infrastructure for Grid Computing Applications Workshop in Cluster Computing and Grid (CCGrid), MAY 2005, Cardiff, UK.