โ Scribed by Dieter Fensel, Federico Michele Facca, Elena Simperl, Ioan Toma (auth.)
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A paradigm shift is taking place in computer science: one generation ago, we learned to abstract from hardware to software, now we are abstracting from software to serviceware implemented through service-oriented computing. Yet ensuring interoperability in open, heterogeneous, and dynamically changing environments, such as the Internet, remains a major challenge for actual machine-to-machine integration. Usually significant problems in aligning data, processes, and protocols appear as soon as a specific piece of functionality is used within a different application context.
The Semantic Web Services (SWS) approach is about describing services with metadata on the basis of domain ontologies as a means to enable their automatic location, execution, combination, and use. Fensel and his coauthors provide a comprehensive overview of SWS in line with actual industrial practice. They introduce the main sociotechnological components that ground the SWS vision (like Web Science, Service Science, and service-oriented architectures) and several approaches that realize it, e.g. the Web Service Modeling Framework, OWL-S, and RESTful services. The real-world relevance is emphasized through a series of case studies from large-scale R&D projects and a business-oriented proposition from the SWS technology provider Seekda.
Each chapter of the book is structured according to a predefined template, covering both theoretical and practical aspects, and including walk-through examples and hands-on exercises. Additional learning material is available on the book website www.swsbook.org. With its additional features, the book is ideally suited as the basis for courses or self-study in this field, and it may also serve as a reference for researchers looking for a state-of-the-art overview of formalisms, methods, tools, and applications related to SWS.
Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-8
Web Science....Pages 9-24
Service Science....Pages 25-35
Web Services....Pages 37-65
Web2.0 and RESTful Services....Pages 67-86
Semantic Web....Pages 87-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Web Service Modeling Ontology....Pages 107-129
The Web Service Modeling Language....Pages 131-162
The Web Service Execution Environment....Pages 163-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Triple Space Computing for Semantic Web Services....Pages 219-249
OWL-S and Other Approaches....Pages 251-278
Lightweight Semantic Web Service Descriptions....Pages 279-295
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
What Are SWS Good for? DIP, SUPER, and SOA4All Use Cases....Pages 299-324
Seekda: The Business Point of View....Pages 325-351
Back Matter....Pages 353-357
Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Business Information Systems; Software Engineering
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