APPARATUS FOR CREATING WORKFLOW OF COMPOSITION WEB SERVICE AND FUNCTIONALITY INFORMATION CONSTRUCTION METHOD FOR CREATING WORKFLOW OF COMPOSITION WEB SERVICE

• US 20110119229A1
• Filed: 07/30/2010
• Published: 05/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: JUNG, Yu-Chul, KIM, Sang-Ki, LEE, Byung-Sun
• Application Number:
  US12/847,579
• Publication Number:
  US 20110119229A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/608
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Provided are an apparatus for creating a workflow of a composition web service and a functionality information construction method for creating a workflow of a composition web service. The apparatus and method analyze procedural knowledge described in web documents to normalize and continuously accumulate functionality information required for performing a task, and automatically configure a workflow of a composition web service by combining pieces of the accumulated functionality information, thereby solving the problem of a discordance occurring when one composition web service is configured by dynamically combining multiple different web services.

Claims

1. An apparatus for creating a workflow of a composition web service, comprising:

a web document preprocessor obtaining a sentence in which information required for performing a task is recorded from a web document;

a functionality information processor extracting an action for performing a task and a task performing object from the sentence obtained by the web document preprocessor, and generating and selecting functionality information linking the extracted action and object;

a functionality information converter normalizing the functionality information selected by the functionality information processor;

a functionality information storage processor storing or updating the functionality information normalized by the functionality information in a database to accumulate the normalized functionality information; and

a workflow configuration unit combining pieces of the normalized functionality information stored or updated and accumulated by the functionality information storage processor to configure a workflow of a composition web service in which multiple web services are combined.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the functionality information processor determines suitability of the generated functionality information to select the functionality information.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the functionality information processor calculates a score of the functionality information using at least one calculation model for suitability calculation, and compares the calculated score with a threshold value to determine suitability of the functionality information.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the functionality information processor reflects a calculation-model-specific weight in score calculation.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the functionality information converter normalizes the action and object included in the functionality information linking the action and object into a highly frequent expression having a like meaning.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the functionality information converter determines validity of the normalized functionality information.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the functionality information converter determines the validity of the normalized functionality information using a previously learned normalization pattern model.

8. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the functionality information converter determines a normalization level and task class of the normalized functionality information.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the workflow configuration unit combines different pieces of the normalized functionality information according to domains provided with the composition web service to configure the workflow of the composition web service.

10. A functionality information construction method for creating a workflow of a composition web service, comprising:

obtaining a sentence in which information required for performing a task is recorded from a web document;

extracting an action for performing a task and a task performing object from the obtained sentence, and generating and selecting functionality information linking the extracted action and object;

normalizing the selected functionality information; and

storing or updating the normalized functionality information in a database to accumulate the normalized functionality information.

11. The functionality information construction method of claim 10, wherein the generating and selecting of the functionality information linking the extracted action and object includes determining suitability of the generated functionality information to select the functionality information.

12. The functionality information construction method of claim 11, wherein the generating and selecting of the functionality information linking the extracted action and object further includes calculating a score of the functionality information using at least one calculation model for suitability calculation, and comparing the calculated score with a threshold value to determine the suitability of the functionality information.

13. The functionality information construction method of claim 12, wherein the generating and selecting of the functionality information linking the extracted action and object further includes reflecting a calculation-model-specific weight in score calculation.

14. The functionality information construction method of claim 10, wherein the normalizing of the selected functionality information includes normalizing the action and object included in the functionality information linking the action and object into a highly frequent expression having a like meaning.

15. The functionality information construction method of claim 14, wherein the normalizing of the selected functionality information further includes determining validity of the normalized functionality information.

16. The functionality information construction method of claim 15, wherein the normalizing of the selected functionality information further includes determining the validity of the normalized functionality information using a previously learned normalization pattern model.

17. The functionality information construction method of claim 14, wherein the normalizing of the selected functionality information further includes determining a normalization level and task class of the normalized functionality information.