Integration of web service interfaces via decision trees

Abstract

Web services as a basic instrument for inter-system communication are expanding rapidly. This causes an increased interest in effective integration into the respective complex systems.

However, manual integration and management of evolution of the XML formats may be very hard. In this paper we study the possibilities of reverse engineering of XML schemas.

A new method based on analysis of our previously proposed platform-specific conceptual model XSEM and the subsequent creation of a decision tree is introduced. The method allows to find a mapping from XML formats to conceptual diagram efficiently and more precisely.

Keywords

• XML schema
• conceptual modeling
• decision trees
• integration
• reverse-engineering