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Semantic Service Description Framework for Address

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For the last decade, the study on semantic Web Services has become an important research topic in the fields of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Grid computing. The key objective of semantic Web Services is to achieve automatic Web Service discovery, invocation and composition. There are several existing works that have proposed some semantic description frameworks such as OWL-S, WSDL-S and WSMO. However, these works are only focusing on ontology-based data-type semantics of the service capabilities and have not considered making use of contextual information about Web Services, which we believe more effective and natural for describing Web Services. Based on the existing work, the requirements have to be precise to locate services, which is difficult in most of the cases because if a service requester is not an expert in the required service's domain, it is impractical to provide a precise requirement. To address these problems, a context-based semantic service description framework is proposed in this chapter. This framework focuses on not only the capabilities of Web Services, but also the usage context information of Web Services so that the service requester can locate services by specifying how they want to use them rather than the type and interface of the services when they are not sure about it. We combine the conceptual graphs (CGs) and non-monotonic logic technologies into the framework for addressing the imprecise requirement issue.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Durham, UK

    William Song & Malcolm Munro

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  1. Business Information Systems Group J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland

    Chris Barry

  2. Business Information Systems Group J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland

    Michael Lang

  3. Department of Electrical Computer Engineering, Boise State University, 1910 University Dr. MEC 202C, Boise, ID, 83725-2075, USA

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    Kieran Conboy

  5. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boise State University, 1910 University Dr. MEC 202C, Boise, ID, 83725-2075, USA

    Gregory Wojtkowski

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Du, X., Song, W., Munro, M. (2009). Semantic Service Description Framework for Address. In: Barry, C., Lang, M., Wojtkowski, W., Conboy, K., Wojtkowski, G. (eds) Information Systems Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78578-3_35

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