Dietze, Stefan; Gugliotta, Alessio; Domingue, John and Mrissa, Michael
(2011).
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://doi.org/10.4018/jwsr.2011010101 |
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Abstract
Semantic Web Services (SWS) aim at the automated discovery, selection and orchestration of Web services on the basis of comprehensive, machine-interpretable semantic descriptions. However, heterogeneities between distinct SWS representations pose strong limitations w.r.t. interoperability and reusability. Hence, semantic-level mediation, i.e. mediation between concurrent semantic representations of services, is a key requirement to allow SWS matchmaking algorithms to compare capabilities of distinct SWS. In that, semantic-level mediation requires to identify similarities across distinct SWS representations. Since current approaches to mediate between distinct service annotations rely either on manual one-to-one mappings or on semiautomatic mappings based on the exploitation of linguistic or structural similarities, these are perceived to be costly and error-prone. We propose a mediation approach enabling the implicit representation of similarities across distinct SWS by grounding these in so-called Mediation Spaces (MS). Given a set of SWS and their respective MS grounding, a general-purpose mediator automatically computes similarities to identify the most appropriate SWS for a given request. A prototypical application illustrates our approach.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2011 IGI Global |
| ISSN: | 1546-5004 |
| Keywords: | web services; service discovery; semantic web services; semantic mediation; conceptual spaces; integration; interoperability |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
| Item ID: | 24375 |
| Depositing User: | Kay Dave |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Dec 2010 09:39 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2016 23:24 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/24375 |
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