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ECOWS 2004: Web Services pp 285–299Cite as

A Proposal for a Semantic Web Service Description Format

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Automatic evaluation and consumption of Web services requires a comprehensive semantic information model of a Web service. One example of a language that facilitates capability-driven description of services is OWL-S. However, it imposes two limitations: (1) it offers no native support for the description of certain rule types often needed for service description and (2) it leads to very large service description documents that are difficult to read and write. In this paper, we propose an XML-based markup format that addresses these problems and allows for semantic annotation of Web services of different technical flavors. This work is inspired by OWL-S, however it makes certain design decisions aimed to increase the ease of use of semantic Web service descriptions, by presenting a significantly more compact syntax for service markup and grounding. Furthermore, the proposed description format provides support for non-deterministic service operations.

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  1. Institute for Media and Communications Management, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Joachim Peer

  2. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Maja Vukovic

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  1. Business Informatics Department, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 1101 Kitchawan Road, Route 134, 10598, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

    Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang

  2. University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, P.O. Box, 78120, Furtwangen, Germany

    Mario Jeckle

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Peer, J., Vukovic, M. (2004). A Proposal for a Semantic Web Service Description Format. In: Zhang, LJ.(., Jeckle, M. (eds) Web Services. ECOWS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3250. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30209-4_21

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