Describing and Organizing Semantic Web Services
The semantic organization and description of Web services is an important requirement for enabling the automatic composition of Web services. The number of Web services available on the Web is large and continuously changing. Additionally, service provide
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Brahim Medjahed • Athman Bouguettaya
Service Composition for the Semantic Web Foreword by Schahram Dustdar
Brahim Medjahed Department of Computer and Information Science University of Michigan - Dearborn Evergreen Road 4901 48128 Dearborn Michigan USA [email protected]
Athman Bouguettaya CSIRO ICT Center CS & IT Building (108) North Road 2601 Acton, ACT Australia [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-8464-7 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-8465-4 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-8465-4 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011921256
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To my parents Malika and Mahmoud, my wife Ibtissam, my daughters Lina and Sarah, and my sisters and brothers. Brahim Medjahed
To my father who taught me the love of knowledge.
Athman Bouguettaya
Foreword
The problem of service composition is viewed by many as the “holy grail” in Services Computing. There have been many attempts by researchers from various domains to perform research on this highly relevant and timely subject. One of the goals in Semantic Web research has been to provide concepts, methods, and tools to cater for automatic composition of services on the Web. This poses a hard problem since composition of services is naturally connected to issues of semantics and context (including functional as well as non-functional service properties) on the one side and technology on the other side. So far, there is no standard and agreed-upon way to perform service composition of the Semantic Web. In this book the authors achieve a substantial step forward in the area of automatic service composition on the Semantic Web. Clearly, the goal of automation is engrained in computer science research, and is, as such, a worthwhile endeavor. This excellent book aims at establishing the required foundations to address this problem. In particular, Medjahed and Bouguettaya present concepts and techniques that can be applied to a wide range of applications. In this book the contributions are presented in the context of e-government and bioinformatics cases but can easily be transported to other areas as well. The contributions include specification, understanding the semantics, matching, and generating
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