System and method of dynamic service composition for business process outsourcing

A system for composing an optimal business process using existing Web services, comprising:

• means for capturing customer business requirements;
• means for recording said business requirements in a uniform representation, said uniform representation using a standard vocabulary of terms for specifying tasks satisfying said business requirements and using a language structure for relating said specified tasks in a business process flow;
• means for automatically generating a search script from said uniform representation, said search script being usable by Web services to identify one or more service providers for each of said specified tasks, said one or more identified service providers being placed on a qualified service list for said specified task;
• means for using an optimization algorithm to automatically select a service provider for each task from said respective qualified service list, said optimization algorithm optimizing said business process flow;
• and
• means for automatically transforming the optimal business process into a business process flow language for execution.

A computer readable medium containing code for composing an optimal business process using existing Web services, the code further comprising:

• first code for capturing customer business requirements;
• second code for recording said business requirements in a uniform representation, said uniform representation using a standard vocabulary of terms for specifying tasks satisfying said business requirements and using a language structure for relating said specified tasks in a business process flow;
• third code for automatically generating a search script from said uniform representation, said search script being usable by Web services to identify one or more service providers for each of said specified tasks, said one or more identified service providers being placed on a qualified service list for said specified task;
• fourth code for using an optimization algorithm to automatically select a service provider for each task from said respective qualified service list, said optimization algorithm optimizing said business process flow;
• and
• fifth code for automatically transforming the optimal business process into a business process flow language for execution.