Towards Workflow Mashups

Abstract

Enterprises need to collaborate and share and resources, as well as costs and risks on-the-fly exists. This need arises from the challenge to remain competitive in an aggressive global market. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) enables such collaborations. The current technologies enable innovative businesses that were not possible before, such as on demand composition of offerings from distinct providers to address customers needs. This was investigated in numerous approaches under the heading ”Mashups” which are concerned with users combining services. In this paper we propose a model to compose a service dynamically to address an arising opportunity for which no service is available assuming that simple or complex services exit to provide the functionality