Service Composition System in Consideration of the Characteristics of Engineering Services

The product development in mechanical industry can be modeled as an engineering process defined on the collaboration of various engineering services. An e-Engineering framework aims to integrate engineering services and mediate them, so as to promote collaboration within the context of product development. The collaboration of engineering services is very similar to a business process, in terms of web service composition. By using the web service composition, the e-Engineering framework can be operated in an open environment, and provide better engineering services to its users. However, the existing web service composition methodology shows some limitations when dealing with engineering services. This paper presents a service composition system for the engineering services in consideration of their characteristics.