@inproceedings{www2009141, booktitle = {18th International World Wide Web Conference}, month = {April}, title = {Automatic Web Service Composition with Abstraction and Refinement}, author = {Hyunyoung Kil and Wonhong Nam and Dongwon Lee}, year = {2009}, pages = {1121--1121}, url = {http://www2009.eprints.org/141/}, abstract = {The behavioral description based Web Service Composition (WSC) problem aims at the automatic construction of a coordinator web service that controls a set of web services to reach a goal state. However, solving the WSC problem exactly with a realistic model is doubly-exponential in the number of variables in web service descriptions. In this paper, we propose a novel efficient approximation-based algorithm using automatic abstraction and re?nement to dramatically reduce the number of variables needed to solve the problem.} }