Semantic Web Services

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Fensel, Dieter (Συγγραφέας), Facca, Federico Michele (Συγγραφέας), Simperl, Elena (Συγγραφέας), Toma, Ioan (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Θέματα: Computer science.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Software engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; IT in Business.; Software Engineering.

 A paradigm shift is taking place in computer science: one generation ago, we learned to abstract from hardware to software, now we are abstracting from software to serviceware implemented through service-oriented computing. Yet ensuring interoperability in open, heterogeneous, and dynamically changing environments, such as the Internet, remains a major challenge for actual machine-to-machine integration. Usually significant problems in aligning data, processes, and protocols appear as soon as a specific piece of functionality is used within a different application context. The Semantic Web Services (SWS) approach is about describing services with metadata on the basis of domain ontologies as a means to enable their automatic location, execution, combination, and use. Fensel and his coauthors provide a comprehensive overview of SWS in line with actual industrial practice. They introduce the main sociotechnological components that ground the SWS vision (like Web Science, Service Science, and service-oriented architectures) and several approaches that realize it, e.g. the Web Service Modeling Framework, OWL-S, and RESTful services. The real-world relevance is emphasized through a series of case studies from large-scale R&D projects and a business-oriented proposition from the SWS technology provider Seekda. Each chapter of the book is structured according to a predefined template, covering both theoretical and practical aspects, and including walk-through examples and hands-on exercises.  Additional learning material is available on the book website www.swsbook.org. With its additional features, the book is ideally suited as the basis for courses or self-study in this field, and it may also serve as a reference for researchers looking for a state-of-the-art overview of formalisms, methods, tools, and applications related to SWS. 

 Introduction -- Web Science -- Service Science -- Web Services -- Web2.0 and RESTful Services -- SemanticWeb -- Web Service Modeling Ontology -- The Web Service Modeling Language -- The Web Service Execution Environment -- Triple Space Computing for SemanticWeb Services -- OWL-S and Other Approaches -- Lightweight SemanticWeb Service Descriptions -- SWS Are Good For What: dip, SUPER, and SOA4All Use Cases -- Seekda: The Business Point of View.-.