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The introduction of Service-Oriented Architectures often promises effective and efficient service support of the organization’s business processes. Matching and combining the right services to support the processes can only be ensured, if the service functionalities are semantically annotated. However, service discovery within heterogeneous annotations can become a problem. The following paper introduces an integrated approach to deal with heterogeneous semantic annotations of different service providers. Based on deduction from the state-of-the-art of semantic annotations for services, the developed approach establishes four strategies as the prerequisites for a common search base.
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Rake, J., Schönherr, M. (2009). Decoupling of Heterogeneous Semantic Service Annotations and Their Semantic Models – Towards an Integrated Approach in a Multi-Service-Provider-Scenario. In: Di Nitto, E., Ripeanu, M. (eds) Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2007 Workshops. ICSOC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4907. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-93851-4_19
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