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The XMDD Approach to the Semantic Web Services Challenge

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The Semantic Web Services Challenge addresses since 2006 the issue of finding adequate domain modeling formalisms that help taming the complexity of service orchestration and service discovery. In this chapter we sketch briefly our XMDD (eXtreme Model Driven Design) approach to the development of large service-oriented applications and describe how it was used to address the Challenge. Our approach gave rise so far to a collection of six solutions with different engines, methods, and profiles. We examine in this technological landscape the concrete settings, the dimensions of complexity that appear in the Challenge, and reflect on the essence of the evaluations and observations so far.

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    From the SWSC Wiki page: The goal of the SWS Challenge is to develop a common understanding of various technologies intended to facilitate the automation of mediation, choreography and discovery for Web Services using semantic annotations. The intent of this challenge is to explore the trade-offs among existing approaches. Additionally we would like to figure out which parts of problem space may not yet be covered.

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  1. Chair Service and Software Engineering, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Tiziana Margaria

  2. Chair Programming Systems, TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Christian Kubczak & Bernhard Steffen

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Margaria, T., Kubczak, C., Steffen, B. (2012). The XMDD Approach to the Semantic Web Services Challenge. 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_15

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