Modeling Semantic Web Services (eBook)

The Web Service Modeling Language

Jos De Bruijn, Mick Kerrigan, Uwe Keller, Holger Lausen, James Scicluna (Autoren)

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2008 | 2008
XIV, 192 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-68172-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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 amount of 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 the form of ontologies, with a conceptual grounding in the Web Service Modeling Ontology.

Academic and industrial researchers as well as professionals will find a comprehensive overview of the concepts and challenges in the area of Semantic Web services, the Web Services Modeling Language and its relation to the Web Services Modeling Ontology, and an in-depth treatment of both enabling technologies and theoretical foundations.

Jos de Bruijn received his Master of Science degree in Technical Informatics from the Delft, University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 2003. Since 2003 he is employed as a researcher at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His research interests include Semantic Web (Services) languages, Logical languages, Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning. He is the main architect of the WSML language.

Dieter Fensel is the Scientific Director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2003, and the Director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck, Austria in 2006. His current research interests are around the usage of semantics in 21st century computer science.

Inhalt

Preface 5
Motivation 5
Goal 5
Target Audience 6
Acknowledgments 6
Contents 7
List of Figures 9
List of Tables 11
List of Listings 12
1 Introduction 13
1.1 Running Example 15
1.2 Outline of the Book 17
Part I Basics 18
2 Semantic Web Services 19
2.1 Web Technologies 19
2.2 Semantic Web Technologies 21
2.3 Web Service Technologies 24
2.4 Web Service Usage Tasks 27
2.5 Challenges in Web Service description 30
3 The Web Service Modeling Ontology 32
3.1 Web Service and Goal Description 34
3.2 Basic Usage Patterns of WSMO 36
4 The Basic WSML Language 38
4.1 Components of Web Service Descriptions 39
4.2 Design Principles of WSML 42
4.3 WSML Language Variants 45
4.4 WSML Language and Surface Syntax 47
4.5 XML and RDF Exchange Syntaxes 65
4.6 Leveraging RDF and OWL Ontologies in WSML Web Services 68
Part II The WSML Description Components 71
5 Description of Ontologies 72
5.1 Relationship between the Conceptual and Logical Expression Syntaxes 73
5.2 Semantics of WSML Ontologies 75
5.3 Layering of WSML Variants 90
5.4 Combination with RDFS and OWL DL 95
6 Functional Description of Services 104
6.1 Approaches to Functional Description 105
6.2 Set-Based Web Service Description 107
6.3 State-Based Web Service Description 114
7 Behavioral Description of Services 124
7.1 Behavioral Model of Choreographies 125
7.2 Overview of the WSML Choreography Language 126
7.3 Formalizing WSML Choreographies 129
7.4 Relating Functional and Behavioral Descriptions 136
Part III Enabling Technologies for WSML 140
8 Reasoning with WSML 141
8.1 Ontology Reasoning 142
8.2 Enabling Ontology Reasoning with WSML 145
8.3 Reasoning with Rule-Based Variants 148
8.4 Reasoning with WSML-DL 161
9 Creating and Managing WSML Descriptions 165
9.1 Editing and Browsing WSML Descriptions 167
9.2 Validating WSML Descriptions 174
9.3 Testing WSML Ontologies, Web Services and Goals 176
9.4 Interfacing with Semantic Execution Environments 179
10 Conclusions and Outlook 182
10.1 Semantic Web Service Description with WSML 182
10.2 Ongoing Standardization Efforts 184
References 186
Index 195

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2008
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 192 p. 28 illus.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Schlagworte: E-Business • Modeling • Ontologies • Ontology • search engine marketing (SEM) • semantic web • semantic web services • Service-Oriented Architecture • Web • Web Services • WSML • WSMO
• ISBN-10: 3-540-68172-8 / 3540681728
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-68172-4 / 9783540681724