Modeling semantic web services: the web service modeling language

Semantic Web services promise to automate tasks such as discovery, mediation,selection, composition, and invocation of services, enabling fully flexible automated e-business. Their usage, however, still requires a significant amountof human intervention due to the lack of support for a machine-processable description. In this book, Jos de Bruijn and his coauthors lay the foundations for understanding the requirements that shape the description of the various aspects related to Semantic Web services, such as the static background knowledge in the form of ontologies, the functional description of the service, and the behavioral description of the service. They introduce the Web Service Modeling Language (WSML), which provides means for describing the functionality and behavior of Web services, as well as the underlying business knowledge, in theform of ontologies, with a conceptual grounding in the Web Service Modeling Ontology. INDICE: 1 Introduction.- Part I: Basics.- 2 Semantic Web Services.- 3 The Web Service Modeling Ontology.- 4 The Basic WSML Language.- Part II: The WSML Description Components.- 5 Description of Ontologies.- 6 Functional Description of Services.- 7 Behavioral Description of Services.- Part III Enabling Technologies for WSML.- 8 Reasoning with WSML.- 9 Creating and Managing WSML Descriptions.- 10 Conclusion and Outlook.-References, Index.

• ISBN: 978-3-540-68169-4
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 192
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés