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Enhancing Web Services Description and Discovery to Facilitate Composition

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Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition (SWSWPC 2004)

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Abstract

Web services are in the midst of making the transition from being a promising technology to being widely used in the industry. However, most efforts to use Web services have been manual, thus slowing down the ever changing and dynamic businesses of today. In this paper, we contend that more expressive descriptions of Web services will lead to greater automation and thus provide more agility to businesses. We present the METEOR-S front-end tools for source code annotation and semantic Web service description generation. We also present WSDL-S, a language created for incorporating semantic descriptions in the industry wide accepted WSDL, by extending WSDL 2.0.

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  1. LSDIS Lab, Computer Science Department, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602

    Preeda Rajasekaran, John Miller, Kunal Verma & Amit Sheth

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  1. SAP Research CEC Dresden, Chemnitzer Strasse 48, 01187, Dresden, Germany

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  2. Kno.e.sis Center, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Wright State University, 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy. Dayton, Ohio,  

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Rajasekaran, P., Miller, J., Verma, K., Sheth, A. (2005). Enhancing Web Services Description and Discovery to Facilitate Composition. In: Cardoso, J., Sheth, A. (eds) Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition. SWSWPC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3387. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30581-1_6

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