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Web-services are self-contained, self-describing modular applications and can be soon as a newly emerging distributed computing model for the Web. There are two types of web-services: atomic and composite. A composite Web-Service can be described as a directed process graph that composes other atomic or composite Web-Services. A graph defines the order of execution among the nodes in the process model. In this paper we first discuss the relevant research issues required for outlining a web-service coordination model and compare them to existing coordination models. Furthermore we provide an e-learning scenario where we experiment with a team-enabled workflow management system to enact workflow-based web-services.
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Baïna, K., Dustdar, S. (2003). Web-Services Coordination Model. In: Chan, A.T.S., Chan, S.C.F., Leong, H.V., Ng, V.T.Y. (eds) Cooperative Internet Computing. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 729. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0435-1_13
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