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Introduction

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This introduction will provide the necessary background on Semantic Web Services and their evaluation. It will then introduce SWS evaluation goals, dimensions and criteria and compare the existing community efforts with respect to these. This allows comprehending the similarities and differences of these complementary efforts and the motivation of their design.

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  1. 1.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl

  2. 2.

    http://www.uddi.org/pubs/uddi_v3.htm

  3. 3.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/soap

  4. 4.

    http://www.w3.org/Submission/OWL-S/

  5. 5.

    http://www.wsmo.org/

  6. 6.

    http://www.w3.org/Submission/2010/SUBM-WSMO-Lite-20100823/

  7. 7.

    http://www.w3.org/Submission/SWSF/

  8. 8.

    http://www.wsmo.org/TR/d38/v0.1/

  9. 9.

    http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/

  10. 10.

    http://www.w3.org/Submission/SA-REST/

  11. 11.

    http://about.seals-project.eu/

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    M. Brian Blake

  2. KMi, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

    Liliana Cabral

  3. Department of Computer Science, University Jena, Jena, Germany

    Birgitta König-Ries & Ulrich Küster

  4. Apple, Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA

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Blake, M.B., Cabral, L., König-Ries, B., Küster, U., Martin, D. (2012). Introduction. In: Blake, B., Cabral, L., König-Ries, B., Küster, U., Martin, D. (eds) Semantic Web Services. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28735-0_1

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