Thesis

Thesis Topic Details

Topic ID:
 3054
Title:
 Automatic Web Services Mashup using goal-based and context information
Supervisor:
 Helen Hye-Young Paik
Research Area:
 Services
Associated Staff
Assessor:
 Vladimir Tosic
Topic Details
Status:
 Active
Type:
 R & D
Programs:
 CS CE BIOM BINF SE
Group Suitable:
 Yes
Industrial:
 No
Pre-requisites:
 --
Description:
 Mashup is an application development method which can be done in a lightweight manner to mix information and automate processes. Most of the current mashup approaches (e.g., Yahoo Pipes, Google Mashup Editor, Microsoft Popfly, IBM QEDWiki, etc) use manual composition while full automatic support is still the target of ongoing research activity. The aim of this project is to provide an automatic approach for service discovery and composition based on goal and context.


From the usage point of view, users do not need to care about the technical detail of mashup (e.g., how to invoke services, how to specify control flow, how the data is passed among services, etc). Users are required a framework that allow them to interact with the mashup environment in a more user-friendly way. For example, the mashup environment can perceive users' intention through high-level definition of goal and user's context, then suggest mashup plans to users. For example, Mary wants to have a list of restaurants nearby her address and how to get there, she specifies her goal with preferences such as the preferred time (e.g., evening) and meal (e.g., seafood) and the mashup tool will suggest mashup applications that produce the desired results.

Comments:
 [1] Lu, J.; Yu, Y. & Mylopoulos, J. A Lightweight Approach to Semantic Web Service Synthesis. In Proceeding of WIRI '2005, 240-247



[2] Elmeleegy, H.; Ivan, A.; Akkiraju, R. & Goodwin, R. Mashup Advisor: A Recommendation Tool for Mashup Development. In Proceeding of ICWS'2008, 337-344



[3] Riabov, A. V.; Boillet, E.; Feblowitz, M. D.; Liu, Z. & Ranganathan, A. Wishful search: interactive composition of data mashups. In Proceeding of WWW '2008. 775-784



[4] Abiteboul, S.; Greenshpan, O.; Milo, T. & Polyzotis, N. MatchUp: Autocompletion for Mashups. In Proceeding of ICDE '2009, 1479-1482


[5] Abiteboul, S.; Greenshpan, O. & Milo, T. Modeling the mashup space. In Proceeding of
WIDM' 2008, 87-94

Past Student Reports
  Mei Kee HUNG in s2, 2010
Web Service Mashup Using Spreadsheet Environment
 

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