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Approaches to Semantic Web Services: an Overview and Comparisons

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The Semantic Web: Research and Applications (ESWS 2004)

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The next Web generation promises to deliver Semantic Web Services (SWS); services that are self-described and amenable to automated discovery, composition and invocation. A prerequisite to this, however, is the emergence and evolution of the Semantic Web, which provides the infrastructure for the semantic interoperability of Web Services. Web Services will be augmented with rich formal descriptions of their capabilities, such that they can be utilized by applications or other services without human assistance or highly con-strained agreements on interfaces or protocols. Thus, Semantic Web Services have the potential to change the way knowledge and business services are consumed and provided on the Web. In this paper, we survey the state of the art of current enabling technologies for Semantic Web Services. In addition, we characterize the infrastructure of Semantic Web Services along three orthogonal dimensions: activities, architecture and service ontology. Further, we examine and contrast three current approaches to SWS according to the proposed dimensions.

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  1. Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

    Liliana Cabral, John Domingue, Enrico Motta & Farshad Hakimpour

  2. IAM, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Terry Payne

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  1. Cisco Systems, Inc., 95134, San Jose, CA, USA

    Christoph J. Bussler

  2. Next Generation Web Research Group, BT Group,, Adastral Park, Ipswich, UK

    John Davies

  3. DERI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria

    Dieter Fensel

  4. Institute AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

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Cabral, L., Domingue, J., Motta, E., Payne, T., Hakimpour, F. (2004). Approaches to Semantic Web Services: an Overview and Comparisons. In: Bussler, C.J., Davies, J., Fensel, D., Studer, R. (eds) The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. ESWS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3053. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25956-5_16

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