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Definition, Execution, Analysis, and Optimization of Composite E-Services Fabio Casati and Ming-Chien Shan Hewlett-Packard Laboratories 1501 Page Mill Road, 1U-4 Palo Alto, CA, 94304 casati,shan@ Abstract The Internet is becoming the mean through which services are delivered to businesses and customers. Standard bodies as well as individual software vendors are rushing to define languages, protocols, and tools that support the development and deployment of e-services. The shift to the e-services paradigm provides the opportunity and the need for defining value-add ed, composite services by orchestrating other basic or composite ones. In this paper we present our efforts towards the development of a service composition facility. We first illustrate the characteristics of composite services, and then describe the service composition model and language we have developed, by reusing concepts from the workflow research community where possible and extending them when needed. We next introduce the prototype implementation of a composite service engine, and we conclude the paper by detailing our work in progress on composite service analysis and optimization. 1 Introduction The next chapter of the Internet story is about the mass proliferation of e-services. Indeed, more and more companies are rushing to provide all sorts of services on the Web, ranging from ”traditional” on-line travel reservations and directory services to real-time traffic reports and even outsourcing of entire business functions