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In distributed environments, collaboration is often achieved with the help of services. To enable automatic service trading, semantically expressive, automatically comparable, flexible, and editable service descriptions are needed. Our analysis shows that only ontology-based service descriptions like DAML-S offer the necessary expressiveness and flexibility. Unfortunately, up to now, DAML-S offers just a generic framework and lacks support for creating and editing appropriate service descriptions for specific classes of services. Therefore, in this paper, we present an approach to improving the usability of DAML-S. The two main building blocks of our approach are a process and a tool. The process guides through the steps necessary to create adequate service descriptions by introducing a layered ontology of services. The graphical tool, DINST, implements these ideas, thus offering a comfortable way to edit service descriptions.
This work is partially funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) within SPP 1140 [1].
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Klein, M., König-Ries, B. (2003). A Process and a Tool for Creating Service Descriptions Based on DAML-S. In: Benatallah, B., Shan, MC. (eds) Technologies for E-Services. TES 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2819. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39406-8_12
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