Master Thesis Defense: Alexandre Simard

Speaker: Alexandre Simard

Supervisor: Dr. J. Paquet

Examining Committee: Drs. T. Eavis, Y.-G. Gueheneuc, J. Yang (Chair)

Title: A Framework for Interoperability across Heterogeneous Service Description Models

Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Time: 13:30

Place: EV 3.309

ABSTRACT

Automated web service processing, composition and execution is a research area that has yielded different service description models that can be implemented using a wide array of standards and technologies. Due to the diversity of their underlying service description models and the specific operational standards and platforms they are using, it has been difficult to fairly compare various research solutions pertaining to web service processing, composition and execution. All solutions require a web service description repository, for example, to automatically compose and execute composite services. Different research endeavors have provided original and diverse solutions to these problems, many of them being extensions to existing solutions using standard service description models.

We propose a highly modular web service description framework that can allow the user to import, export, search, modify, and enable the composition and execution of services described using different service description models and/or standards. Our service description framework uses a simple and flexible interface to test and compare web service processing, composition and execution models and algorithms.