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Semantic Web Service Description

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CASCOM: Intelligent Service Coordination in the Semantic Web

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The convergence of Semantic Web with service-oriented computing is manifested by Semantic Web service (SWS) technology. It addresses the major challenge of automated, interoperable and meaningful coordination of Web services to be carried out by intelligent software agents. In this chapter, we briefly discuss prominent SWS description frameworks, that are the standard SAWSDL, OWL-S and WSML1. This is complemented by a critique, and selected references to further readings on the subject.

Due to space limitations other semantic service description framworks like SWSL (Semantic Web Service Language) and the DIANE service description language are excluded.

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  1. Institute of Business Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, TechnoArk 3, 3960, Sierre, Switzerland

    Michael Schumacher

  2. Database and Information Systems Group, Universität Basel, Bernoullistrasse 16, 4056, Basel, Switzerland

    Helko Schuldt

  3. TeliaSonera, P.O. Box 970, 00051, Sonera, Finland

    Helkki Helin

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Klusch, M. (2008). Semantic Web Service Description. In: Schumacher, M., Schuldt, H., Helin, H. (eds) CASCOM: Intelligent Service Coordination in the Semantic Web. Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8575-0_3

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