They wanted to develop a prototype to combine various webservices into a useful form for the user in a way that was easy for the user to understand
Developed a prototyle to dynamically compose webservices and then tested the prototype in some simple scenarios
Sirin, E., Hendler, J., & Parsia, B. (2003). Semi-automatic Composition of Web Services. College Park, Maryland, USA.
Up until 1995 computer applications were almost universally local and standalone. At the most applications made use of local area networks to allow a multi-user database. With the advent of the Internet and web services it became possible to develop applications which share both data and programming logic. An extension of this is the idea of having not one application using the service but many. One of the first examples of this is MSN which can be accessed by various windows based clients (Windows Messenger, Windows Live, etc) as well as a variety of web interfaces (Windows Live Online, Yahoo Messenger and Gmail Chat). This field is of interest to me because it allows the never leave anything behind work ideal while not forcing users to work only in a slow web based system.
My questions are:
1 Who is using these sorts of technologies already and how are they implemented?
2 What is the potential for future development?
3 How practical and usable will such applications be?
4 Is there scope for new protocols to better enable this type of development.
