Semantic Web Services
A growing trend in software architecture is to build self-contained and
modular software components called Web services, that can be described,
published, located and invoked over the Internet.
Web services promote interoperability between disparate heterogeneous
applications by leveraging standardized Web-based technologies.
To enable automated operations on web services, recent research has explored
annotating Web services with computer-interpretable
descriptions of their properties such as
behaviour, purpose, preconditions, and effects.
There have been several proposals for semantic web services, including
OWL-S and the Web Serviced Modelling Ontology (WSMO).
Since these proposals are all being reviewed by the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C), it is important to provide a formal harmonization
of the efforts rather than create an environment with conflicting standards.
Work in Applications of PSL to Semantic Web Services proposed an axiomatization of OWL-S concepts using PSL,
and this axiomatization later became the foundation for Semantic Web
Services Ontology (SWSO), which
was published as a W3C Member Submission to the World Wide Web Consortium.
Important open problems within this area include the characterization of
the relationship between SWSO and other proposals for semantic web services.
Such a characterization will either provide an explicit axiomatization of
other informal web service ontologies or it will specify semantic mappings
between the axiomatizations of the ontologies.
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