Current State and Challenges of Automatic Planning in Web Service Composition

Abstract: This paper gives a survey on the current state of Web Service Compositions and the difficulties and solutions to automated Web Service Compositions. This first gives a definition of Web Service Composition and the motivation and goal of it. It then explores into why we need automated Web Service Compositions and formally defines the domains. Techniques and solutions are proposed by the papers we surveyed to solve the current difficulty of automated Web Service Composition. Verification and future work is discussed at the end to further extend the topic.