Entish: A Language for Describing Data Processing in Open Distributed Systems

Issue title: Concurrency Specification and Programming (CS&P 2003)

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Ambroszkiewicz, Stanisław

Affiliations: Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, al. Ordona 21, PL-01-237 Warsaw, Poland

Abstract: There are two general approaches to integration of heterogeneous applications. The first one corresponds to business-to-business point of view, whereas the second one to the client's point of view. The first one is based on the assumption that applications are composed, orchestrated, or choreographed in order to create sophisticated business processes, whereas the second one assumes that applications are composed (typically on the fly) in order to realize clients' requests. In this work the client's point of view is taken and a new experimental technology for service description and composition in open and distributed environment is proposed. The technology consists of description language called Entish, and composition protocol called entish 1.0.

Keywords: service-oriented architecture, service description and composition, software agents

Journal: Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 60, no. 1-4, pp. 41-66, 2004