Semantic web services as foundation for enterprise interoperability

This paper presents an overview of the Web Service Execution Environment (WSMX) and its basic support for issues originating in the Enterprise Interoperability (EI) problem domain. WSMX is a reference implementation of the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO), which is a conceptual model used to describe various aspects related to Semantic Web Services (SWS). WSMX is an execution environment aiming to enable fully automated discovery, selection, mediation, invocation and interoperation of the SWSs. It is a platform characterized by strong component decoupling and goal-driven Web service usage. Certain components of the platform can directly contribute to the EI requirements identified by current research and technical efforts thus making WSMX suitable as the foundational platform for solving EI issues. To justify this claim a use case representing a WSMX based solution addressing data and process heterogeneity reconciliation in B2B integration is presented.