Modeling Semantic Web services : the web service modeling language

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Information & Library Science Library

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TK5105.88815 .M63 2008
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Available

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Summary

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.

Contents

  • 1 Introduction p. 1
  • 1.1 Running Example p. 3
  • 1.2 Outline of the Book p. 5
  • Part I Basics
  • 2 Semantic Web Services p. 9
  • 2.1 Web Technologies p. 9
  • 2.2 Semantic Web Technologies p. 11
  • 2.3 Web Service Technologies p. 14
  • 2.4 Web Service Usage Tasks p. 17
  • 2.5 Challenges in Web Service description p. 20
  • 3 The Web Service Modeling Ontology p. 23
  • 3.1 Web Service and Goal Description p. 25
  • 3.2 Basic Usage Patterns of WSMO p. 27
  • 4 The Basic WSML Language p. 29
  • 4.1 Components of Web Service Descriptions p. 30
  • 4.2 Design Principles of WSML p. 33
  • 4.3 WSML Language Variants p. 36
  • 4.4 WSML Language and Surface Syntax p. 38
  • 4.5 XML and RDF Exchange Syntaxes p. 56
  • 4.6 Leveraging RDF and OWL Ontologies in WSML Web Services p. 59
  • Part II The WSML Description Components
  • 5 Description of Ontologies p. 65
  • 5.1 Relating Conceptual and Logical Syntaxes p. 66
  • 5.2 Semantics of WSML Ontologies p. 68
  • 5.3 Layering of WSML Variants p. 83
  • 5.4 Combination with RDFS and OWL DL p. 88
  • 6 Functional Description of Services p. 97
  • 6.1 Approaches to Functional Description p. 98
  • 6.2 Set-Based Web Service Description p. 100
  • 6.3 State-Based Web Service Description p. 107
  • 7 Behavioral Description of Services p. 117
  • 7.1 Behavioral Model of Choreographies p. 118
  • 7.2 Overview of the WSML Choreography Language p. 119
  • 7.3 Formalizing WSML Choreographies p. 122
  • 7.4 Relating Functional and Behavioral Descriptions p. 129
  • Part III Enabling Technologies for WSML
  • 8 Reasoning with WSML p. 135
  • 8.1 Ontology Reasoning p. 136
  • 8.2 Enabling Ontology Reasoning with WSML p. 139
  • 8.3 Reasoning with Rule-Based Variants p. 142
  • 8.4 Reasoning with WSML-DL p. 155
  • 9 Creating and Managing WSML Descriptions p. 159
  • 9.1 Editing and Browsing WSML Descriptions p. 161
  • 9.2 Validating WSML Descriptions p. 168
  • 9.3 Testing WSML Ontologies, Web Services and Goals p. 170
  • 9.4 Interfacing with Semantic Execution Environments p. 173
  • 10 Conclusions and Outlook p. 177
  • 10.1 Semantic Web Service Description with WSML p. 177
  • 10.2 Ongoing Standardization Efforts p. 179
  • References p. 181
  • Index p. 191

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