A business-level service model supporting end-user customization

If end users can utilize the abundant Web services to construct business applications on demand and independently, the ever changing business requirements will be met efficiently and timely. However, Web services are difficult for end users to use directly due to both the diversity of Web services and the diversity of end-user requirements. To tackle the problem, we introduce feature modeling and configuring techniques in domain engineering into service-oriented computing, and correspondingly propose a business-level service model and an end-user friendly service customization mechanism. Feasibility of the proposals is demonstrated on an example