The project objective is to develop, through cooperation between academia and industry, an approach for user-driven service composition. The approach builds upon theoretical foundations such as runtime semantic service discovery and runtime service validation. It will provide methods, development tool extensions, middleware and user composition tools. It will be assessed through trial services.

The sub-goals are to:

• develop theoretical solutions for flexible, safe and useful compositions of collaborative services,
• support service browsing, selection and composition driven by user goals,
• support goal-based service discovery allowing for transparent service composition at runtime,
• assess the theoretical solutions in a runtime environment through prototyping,
• assess the visual composition approach through prototyping,
• assess the overall approach through development of pilot services,
• demonstrate pilot services in a large-scale network infrastructure.