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In this chapter, we describe a solution to the Logistics Management Scenario based on the Web service discovery engine Glue2, which provides support for both functional and non functional discovery components. The solution addresses the two main aspects this scenario focuses on: (a) the radically different perspectives adopted by the final users to describe their goals and the service providers to describe the services; (b) the evaluation of soft constraints to rank a set of Web services that satisfy the hard constraints expressed in the goal. The solution is based on an extension of the WSMO conceptual model that (1) manages classes and instances of services and goals in a different way, and (2) supports a richer specification of the services non functional properties in Web Service and Goal descriptions. The point (a) is solved by adopting a rule-based mediator-centric approach. The point (b) is solved by modeling some properties of the services and the soft constraints in the goals as Non Functional Properties adopting the Policy-Centered Meta-model (PCM); there properties are used by a Glue2 ranking component to rank the set of discovered services.
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Carenini, A. et al. (2012). A Solution to the Logistics Management Scenario with the Glue2 Web Service Discovery Engine. In: Blake, B., Cabral, L., König-Ries, B., Küster, U., Martin, D. (eds) Semantic Web Services. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28735-0_17
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