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Title: A framework for deriving semantic web services
Authors: Bell, D
de Cesare, S
Iacovelli, N
Lycett, M
Merico, A
Keywords: Semantic web services;Ontological modeling;Service content interpretation;Scoping;Harmonization
Issue Date: 2007
Publisher: Springer
Citation: Information Systems Frontiers 9(1): 69-84, Mar 2007
Abstract: Web service-based development represents an emerging approach for the development of distributed information systems. Web services have been mainly applied by software practitioners as a means to modularize system functionality that can be offered across a network (e.g., intranet and/or the Internet). Although web services have been predominantly developed as a technical solution for integrating software systems, there is a more business-oriented aspect that developers and enterprises need to deal with in order to benefit from the full potential of web services in an electronic market. This ‘ignored’ aspect is the representation of the semantics underlying the services themselves as well as the ‘things’ that the services manage. Currently languages like the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) provide the syntactic means to describe web services, but lack in providing a semantic underpinning. In order to harvest all the benefits of web services technology, a framework has been developed for deriving business semantics from syntactic descriptions of web services. The benefits of such a framework are two-fold. Firstly, the framework provides a way to gradually construct domain ontologies from previously defined technical services. Secondly, the framework enables the migration of syntactically defined web services toward semantic web services. The study follows a design research approach which (1) identifies the problem area and its relevance from an industrial case study and previous research, (2) develops the framework as a design artifact and (3) evaluates the application of the framework through a relevant scenario.
URI: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/592
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10796-006-9018-z
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Dept of Computer Science Research Papers

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