Bringing Semantics to Web Services with OWL-S

Abstract

Current industry standards for describing Web Services focus on ensuring interoperability across diverse platforms, but do not provide a good foundation for automating the use of Web Services. Representational techniques being developed for the Semantic Web can be used to augment these standards. The resulting Web Service specifications enable the development of software programs that can interpret descriptions World Wide

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“…The networked system model builds upon semantic technologies and especially semantic web services ontologies [17]. Fig.…”

Web Service Discovery in the FUSION Semantic Registry

“…The recent years have seen numerous Semantic Web Service frameworks being proposed and promoted for standardisation through W3C member submissions. The most prominent ones are OWL-S [6], WSMO [7], and the WSDL-S [8] specification that evolved into the W3C Recommendation of SAWSDL [9].…”

“…In this section we however discuss only related works that build on the established Semantic Web Service frameworks of OWL-S [6], WSMO [7], and WSDL-S [8].…”

“…The aim of this paper is to present the approach adopted in project FUSION and the open source FUSION Semantic Registry 5 towards this direction, improving and elaborating on the preliminary work presented in [5]. FUSION is an EU-funded research project 6 aiming to promote efficient business process integration within and across enterprises, by offering a semantics-based solution to achieving interoperability among service-oriented business applications. The project aims at delivering a complete reference framework and a methodology for semantics-based Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), a reference implementation of the proposed framework, and a validation of the proposed approach through three pilot studies on intra-and inter-organisational integration.…”

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