Modeling Semantic Web Services [electronic resource] : The Web Service Modeling Language /
de Bruijn, Jos.author.
Kerrigan, Mick.author.
Keller, Uwe.author.
Lausen, Holger.author.
Scicluna, James.author.
Semantic Web services promise to automate tasks such as discovery, mediation, selection, composition, and invocation of services, enabling fully flexible automated e-business. Their usage, however, still requires a significant amount of human intervention due to the lack of support for a machine-processable description. In this book, Jos de Bruijn and his coauthors lay the foundations for understanding the requirements that shape the description of the various aspects related to Semantic Web services, such as the static background knowledge in the form of ontologies, the functional description of the service, and the behavioral description of the service. They introduce the Web Service Modeling Language (WSML), which provides means for describing the functionality and behavior of Web services, as well as the underlying business knowledge, in the form of ontologies, with a conceptual grounding in the Web Service Modeling Ontology. Academic and industrial researchers as well as professionals will find a comprehensive overview of the concepts and challenges in the area of Semantic Web services, the Web Services Modeling Language and its relation to the Web Services Modeling Ontology, and an in-depth treatment of both enabling technologies and theoretical foundations.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-189) and index.
Basics -- Semantic Web Services -- The Web Service Modeling Ontology -- The Basic WSML Language -- The WSML Description Components -- Description of Ontologies -- Functional Description of Services -- Behavioral Description of Services -- Enabling Technologies for WSML -- Reasoning with WSML -- Creating and Managing WSML Descriptions -- Conclusions and Outlook.
Semantic Web services promise to automate tasks such as discovery, mediation, selection, composition, and invocation of services, enabling fully flexible automated e-business. Their usage, however, still requires a significant amount of human intervention due to the lack of support for a machine-processable description. In this book, Jos de Bruijn and his coauthors lay the foundations for understanding the requirements that shape the description of the various aspects related to Semantic Web services, such as the static background knowledge in the form of ontologies, the functional description of the service, and the behavioral description of the service. They introduce the Web Service Modeling Language (WSML), which provides means for describing the functionality and behavior of Web services, as well as the underlying business knowledge, in the form of ontologies, with a conceptual grounding in the Web Service Modeling Ontology. Academic and industrial researchers as well as professionals will find a comprehensive overview of the concepts and challenges in the area of Semantic Web services, the Web Services Modeling Language and its relation to the Web Services Modeling Ontology, and an in-depth treatment of both enabling technologies and theoretical foundations.
Application software.
Computer science.
Library science.
E-commerce.
Information technology.
Business—Data processing.
Software engineering.
Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).
Computer Science, general.
Library Science.
e-Commerce/e-business.
IT in Business.
Software Engineering.