A Review of the Automatic Web Service Composition Surveys

Abstract

In recent years, developing needed software applications via the technique Web Service Composition (WSC) has been more and more popular. Moreover, benefit from the Semantic Web Services (SWSs) technology, it is possible to even automatically conduct WSC, i.e. the Automated Web Service composition (AWSC). Currently the AWSC is a well-studied research subject and which means the existence of a large number of related research efforts. To existing AWSC researches, our goal is to make complete and referable surveys of them, and in this paper we adopt a strategy which may be more efficient than directly reviewing original research papers that we inspect and focus on the already-published AWSC surveys, trying to take advantages of them. With an AWSC survey framework proposed by us previously, we present a modest review on the selected AWSC surveys which inspected the AWSC researches that largely benefit from the SWSs technology. For each selected AWSC survey, in this review we indicate what AWSC research concerns defined by us in the survey framework are covered by it and precisely describe its contents. With this review, the reader can easily and quickly find out proper AWSC surveys for more advanced information and reading.