Discovering semantic relations between Web services using their pre and post-conditions

Author

Lin, Lin ; Arpinar, I. Budak

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Georgia Univ., Athens, GA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

11-15 July 2005

Firstpage

237

Abstract

Discovering and assembling individual Web services into more complex yet new and more useful Web processes receive significant attention from the academia recently. In this paper, we explore using pre and post-conditions of Web services to enable their automatic composition. Also, we present a novel technique for discovering semantic relations between pre and post-conditions of different services using their ontological descriptions. This enables determining services with complimentary functions and generating a semantic Web of services. Our technique takes semantic similarity of pre and post-conditions into account and builds on our earlier work on discovering semantic relationships between interfaces (input and output) of Web services.

Keywords

data mining; formal specification; ontologies (artificial intelligence); semantic Web; Web process; Web service discovery; automatic composition; ontological descriptions; semantic Web; semantic relation discovery; semantic relationship; Assembly systems; Computer science; Distributed information systems; Information resources; Large-scale systems; Ontologies; Resource description framework; Semantic Web; Tin; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Services Computing, 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2408-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCC.2005.45

Filename

1524445