Service Composition in the Context of Service Oriented Architecture

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been one of the most focused area of research since the last decade for providing various solutions using the concept of services. Various researchers have proposed specific models to customize the service discovery, registry and composition for its effective working. This paper looks into the current level of research published in the contemporary literature relating to the efficient service composition for best utilization of the resources. For this purpose, various models have been studied and evaluated with particular reference to service discovery and efficient composition.