Web services are rapidly emerging as the reference paradigm for the interaction and coordination of distributed business processes.
In several research papers we have shown how advanced automated planning techniques can be exploited to automatically compose
web services, and to synthesize monitoring components that control their execution. In this demo we show how these techniques
have been implemented in the ASTRO toolset (http://www.astroproject.org), a set of tools that extend existing platforms for web service design and execution with automated composition and execution
monitoring functionalities.
This work is partially funded by the MIUR-FIRB project RBNE0195K5, “Knowledge Level Automated Software Engineering”, and by
the MIUR-PRIN 2004 project “Advanced Artificial Intelligence Systems for Web Services”.