REST web service composition: A survey of automation and techniques

Abstract

Today, web technology is very important for various sectors. Business, education, communication, the military and medicine all use web technology. Web services are an aspect of web technology important for workflow creation. Web services are widely used in various sectors, such as business, education, communication and medicine. Web services allow the creation of new work processes or provide access to existing processes, as well as facilitating data exchange via a network. Combining the various processes and operations of a service also creates challenges, whether in the form of human errors that need to be eliminated or the creation of duplicate services. By using automatic operation to complete tasks — from gathering components of a web service together, to planning and developing a system's drive — facilitates and controls the operations of a web service's composition and reduces human errors that appear during web service composition. This research surveys various automations and techniques for web service composition and compares 18 methods, detailing each method's advantages, disadvantages and challenges. This research offers the opportunity to study this field and its problems, provide more diverse data and examine the problems of traffic networks.