Semantic Web Services Framework
The Semantic Web Services Framework (SWSF)
has been proposed to support
richer semantic specifications of Web services, based on a comprehensive
representational framework that spans the full range of service-related
concepts.
Such a framework enables fuller, more flexible automation
of service provision
and promotes the use of semantically well-founded reasoning about services.
For example, richer semantics can support greater automation of
service selection, composition, invocation, and verification.
SWSF includes an axiomatized ontology of service concepts
(known as FLOWS, First-order Logic Ontology for Web Services),
which extends the PSL Ontology to provide the conceptual framework
for describing and reasoning about services.
This ontology was originally proposed to address the shortcomings of
earlier approaches such as OWL-S, whose description logic
specification could not axiomatize the intended semantics of its terminology.
Grüninger's work in this project was the axiomatization of the concepts in the
the ontology, which was based on the work in. Applications of PSL to Semantic Web Services
In September 2005, SWSF was published as a W3C Member Submission
for the World Wide Web Consortium.
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