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Semantic Web Services aim to better support the life-cycle of Web services and service-based applications by exploiting semantic descriptions of services. Research in this field has been considerably active and has produced a large number of ontologies, representation languages, and integrated frameworks supporting the discovery, composition and invocation of services among other tasks. In this chapter we provide a thorough, albeit necessarily brief, overview of the conceptual models devised so far, giving the reader a perspective on the relationships, coverage and applicability of each of them together with pointers for gathering further insights and details about these solutions and related software.

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  1. Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK7 6AA, UK

    Carlos Pedrinaci & Maria Maleshkova

  2. Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

    Maciej Zaremba

  3. Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA

    Maryam Panahiazar

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Pedrinaci, C., Maleshkova, M., Zaremba, M., Panahiazar, M. (2012). Semantic Web Services Approaches. In: Barros, A., Oberle, D. (eds) Handbook of Service Description. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1864-1_7

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