A high-level specification for virtual providers. (28th February 2007)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Altenhofen, Michael; Friesen, Andreas; Lemcke, Jens; Borger, Egon
• Is Part Of: International journal of business process integration and management. Volume 1:Number 4(2006)
• Page Start: 267
• Page End: 278
• Publication Date: 2007-02-28
• Subjects: virtual providers -- mediators -- protocol mediation -- semantic web services -- SWS discovery -- message-based interaction -- service-oriented architectures -- SOA -- business process integration; Business -- Computer networks -- Periodicals; Industrial management -- Periodicals; 658.054605
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-8763

Abstract

In this paper, we define a high-level model to mathematically capture the semantical meaning of abstract Virtual Providers (VPs), their instantiation and their composition into rich mediator structures. We will show how this model can be sucessfully applied to two application scenarios, web service protocol mediation and Semantic Web Service(SWS) discovery.