Meta Services aggregates many other types of services. Meta Services could be defined as taking the content or functionality of a service and repurposing it for another delivery channel, such as taking a feed from a web site about financial news source which is a provider that concentrate in the production of news and all the technology associated with this. The product generally is a feed of news articles in an XML-derived format.

Meta Services also defined as a way of abstracting and mapping a workflow to a service in computational Grid environments. By using this, a workflow could adapt various service concepts such as Grid services, Web services, and Portal services without modification to the workflow. Also, converted Meta Services could be shared and reused by users. Furthermore, Meta Services can making effective execution of the workflow because it can contain historical performance data.

Source :

  1. http://www.w3.org/2000/09/Papers/Appelquist.html

  2. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1425312

  3. http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=16991395

  4. Buraga, Sabin and Lenuta Alboaie. "A Metadata Level for the tuBiG Grid-aware Infrastructure". Faculty of Computer Science, "A. I. Cuza" University of Iasi

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