International Journal of Information Studies Syeda Mahwish Fatima Naqvi 6 1 2014 https://www.dline.info/ijis/fulltext/v6n1/ijisv6n1_4.pdf In today’s Web, Web services are created and updated on the fly. It’s already beyond the human ability to analysis them and generates the composition plan manually. A number of approaches have been proposed to tackle that problem. Most of them are inspired by the researches in cross-enterprise workflow and AI planning. This paper gives an overview of recent research efforts of automatic Web service composition both from the workflow and AI planning research community.