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This paper presents a attempt to use the semantic web technologies to deploy and interact with a mathematical package called Bernina. This work is carried out within a European Union funded project called MONET aiming at demonstrating the application of the latest ideas for creating a semantic web to the world of mathematical software. While many of these ideas address the general problem of delivering online web services, they need to be tailored to suit mathematical services. After a brief overview of Bernina we focus on the problem of mathematical services discovery and describe the broker, a key component in the MONET framework. In order to register to a broker, a mathematical service should be able to describe the problem it is intended to solve. We discuss the ontology and taxonomy aspects of the project and show on a small example how it could be used to describe Bernina functions. Before some concluding remarks, we present our prototype implementation of Bernina as a mathematical web service.
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Chicha, Y., Gaëtano, M. (2003). Mathematical Web Services: A Case Study. 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_13
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