Discovery of Semantic Relations between Web Services

Author

Lin, Lin ; Arpinar, I. Budak

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2006

fDate

18-22 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

357

Lastpage

364

Abstract

Discovering and assembling individual Web services into more complex yet new and more useful Web processes has received significant attention from 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 complementary 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. A comprehensive classification of existing composition techniques is also included

Keywords

Web services; ontologies (artificial intelligence); semantic Web; Web services; ontological description; semantic Web; semantic relation discovery; semantic similarity; Assembly systems; Computer science; Context-aware services; Distributed information systems; Large-scale systems; Ontologies; Resource description framework; Semantic Web; Simple object access protocol; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Services, 2006. ICWS '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2669-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICWS.2006.53

Filename

4032046