Title: Monitoring Information Quality within Web Service Composition and Execution,
Abstract: The composition of web services is a promising approach enabling flexible and
loose integration of business applications. Numerous approaches related to web
services composition have been developed usually following three main phases:
the service discovery is based on the semantic description of advertised
services, i.e. the functionality of the service, meanwhile the service
selection is based on non- functional quality dimensions of service, and
finally the service composition aims to support an underlying process. Most of
those approaches explore techniques of static or dynamic design for an optimal
service composition. One important aspect so far is mostly neglected, focusing
on the output produced of composite web services. In this paper, in contrast to
many prominent approaches we introduce a data quality perspective on web
services. Based on a data quality management approach, we propose a framework
for analyzing data produced by the composite service execution. Utilising
process information together with data in service logs, our approach allows
identifying problems in service composition and execution. Analyzing the
service execution history our approach helps to improve common approaches of
service selection and composition.