MOVING TOWARD A FRAMEWORK TO COMPOSE INTELLIGENT WEB SERVICES.

The article discusses the use of intelligent Web services to support cross-organizational business transactions. The paper aims to create types of Web services known as intelligent Web services. Web service technology is being touted as the ideal solution to meet the requirements for the dynamic composition of enterprise information systems. Web services can be loosely defined as self-describing software components accessible through the Internet that support business processes. Offered by multiple providers, Web services are usually published in a central repository with a brokering mechanism. Web services can be blended to implement customized virtual supply chain or smaller-scale business processes confined to a single enterprise. There are fundamental shortcomings of Web services. Business process dynamics and non-functional properties of service-enabled processes are poorly addressed by existing service description languages and Web service flow languages. Current standards do not put forth a methodology to assist designers in building Web services. In order to overcome these shortcomings, the paper suggests leveraging Web services with techniques borrowed from other research domains, such as business object component technology and distributed artificial intelligence.