Enabling Semantic Web Services: The Web Service Modeling Ontology

✍ Scribed by Dieter Fensel, Holger Lausen, Jos de Bruijn, Michael Stollberg, Dumitru Roman, Axel Polleres, John Domingue (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 191
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Service-oriented computing has become one of the predominant factors in current IT research and development. Web services seem to be the middleware solution of the future for highly interoperable distributed software solutions. In parallel, research on the Semantic Web provides the results required to exploit distributed machine-processable data. To combine these two research lines into industrial-strength applications, a number of research projects have been set up by organizations like W3C and the EU.

Dieter Fensel and his coauthors deliver a profound introduction into one of the most promising approaches – the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO). After a brief presentation of the underlying basic technologies and standards of the World Wide Web, the Semantic Web, and Web Services, they detail all the elements of WSMO from basic concepts to possible applications in e-commerce, e-government and e-banking, and they also describe its relation to other approaches like OWL-S or WSDL-S.

While many of the related technologies and standards are still under development, this book already offers both a broad conceptual introduction and lots of pointers to future application scenarios for researchers in academia and industry as well as for developers of distributed Web applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-5
The World Wide Web....Pages 7-24
The Semantic Web....Pages 25-36
Web Services....Pages 37-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Introduction to WSMO....Pages 57-61
The Concepts of WSMO....Pages 63-81
WSML — a Language for WSMO....Pages 83-99
Related Work in the Area of Semantic Web Service Frameworks....Pages 101-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Semantic Web Service Usage Tasks in WSMO....Pages 113-140
Tools....Pages 141-156
Applications of WSMO....Pages 157-168
Conclusion and Outlook....Pages 169-176
Back Matter....Pages 177-188

✦ Subjects

Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Business Information Systems; Electronic Commerce/e-business; Information Storage and Retrieval; Software Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)