Modeling Semantic Web Services The Web Service Modeling Language /

• Main Authors: Bruijn, Jos de (Author), Fensel, Dieter (Author), Kerrigan, Mick (Author), Keller, Uwe (Author), Lausen, Holger (Author), Scicluna, James (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Library science.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Software engineering.; E-commerce.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Computer Science, general.; Library Science.; e-Commerce/e-business.; IT in Business.; Software Engineering.

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-pro...

Table of Contents:

• Basics
• Semantic Web Services
• The Web Service Modeling Ontology
• The Basic WSML Language
• The WSML Description Components
• Description of Ontologies
• Functional Description of Services
• Behavioral Description of Services
• Enabling Technologies for WSML
• Reasoning with WSML
• Creating and Managing WSML Descriptions
• Conclusions and Outlook.