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WSOL — Web Service Offerings Language

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Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web (WES 2002)

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WSOL (Web Service Offerings Language) is an XML (Extensible Markup Language) notation compatible with the WSDL (Web Services Description Language) standard. While WSDL is used for describing operations provided by Web Services, WSOL enables formal specification of multiple classes of service for one Web Service. A service offering is a formal representation of one class of service for a Web Service. As classes of service for Web Services are determined by combinations of various constraints, WSOL enables formal specification of functional constraints, some QoS (a.k.a., non-functional) constraints, simple access rights (for differentiation of service), price, and relationships with other service offerings of the same Web Service. Describing a Web Service in WSOL, in addition to WSDL, enables selection of a more appropriate Web Service and service offering for particular circumstances. Further, it supports dynamic adaptation and management of Web Service compositions using manipulation of service offerings.

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  1. Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Vladimir Tosic, Kruti Patel & Bernard Pagurek

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  1. Oracle Corporation, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA, 94065, USA

    Christoph Bussler

  2. Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Avenue, Room 2D-510, Murray Hill, NJ, 07974, USA

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  3. Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-9020, USA

    Sheila McIlraith

  4. School of Info. Technology and Elec. Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia

    Maria E. Orlowska

  5. Department of Electronic and Information Science, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milan, Italy

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Tosic, V., Patel, K., Pagurek, B. (2002). WSOL — Web Service Offerings Language. In: Bussler, C., Hull, R., McIlraith, S., Orlowska, M.E., Pernici, B., Yang, J. (eds) Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web. WES 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2512. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36189-8_5

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