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The paper provides a conceptual framework for designing and executing business processes using semantic Web services. We envision a world in which a designer defines a “virtual“ Web service as part of a business process, while requiring the system to seek actual Web services that match the specifications of the designer and can be invoked whenever the virtual Web service is activated. Taking a conceptual modeling approach, the relationships between ontology concepts and syntactic Web services are identified. We then propose a generic algorithm for ranking top-K Web services in a decreasing order of their benefit vis-á-vis the semantic Web service. We conclude with an extention of the framework to handle uncertainty as a result of concept mismatch and the desired properties of a schema matching algorithm to support Web service identification.
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Toch, E., Gal, A., Dori, D. (2005). Automatically Grounding Semantically-Enriched Conceptual Models to Concrete Web Services. In: Delcambre, L., Kop, C., Mayr, H.C., Mylopoulos, J., Pastor, O. (eds) Conceptual Modeling – ER 2005. ER 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3716. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11568322_20
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