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POESIA: An ontological workflow approach for composing Web services in agriculture

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This paper describes the POESIA approach to systematic composition of Web services. This pragmatic approach is strongly centered in the use of domain-specific multidimensional ontologies. Inspired by applications needs and founded on ontologies, workflows, and activity models, POESIA provides well-defined operations (aggregation, specialization, and instantiation) to support the composition of Web services. POESIA complements current proposals for Web services definition and composition by providing a higher degree of abstraction with verifiable consistency properties. We illustrate the POESIA approach using a concrete application scenario in agroenvironmental planning.

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  1. Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Caixa Postal 6176, SP, 13081-970, Campinas, Brazil

    Renato Fileto & Claudia Bauzer Medeiros

  2. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 801 Atlantic Drive, GA, 30332-0280, Atlanta, USA

    Ling Liu & Calton Pu

  3. Embrapa - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Av. Dr. Andre Torsello, 209, SP, 13083-886, Campinas, Brazil

    Renato Fileto & Eduardo Delgado Assad

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Received: 15 December 2002, Accepted: 16 April 2003, Published online: 30 September 2003

Edited by: V. Atluri

Renato Fileto: fileto@ic.unicamp.br

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Fileto, R., Liu, L., Pu, C. et al. POESIA: An ontological workflow approach for composing Web services in agriculture. VLDB 12, 352–367 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00778-003-0103-3

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