An Approach to Construct Dynamic Service Mashups using Lightweight Semantics

Liu, Dong; Li, Ning; Pedrinaci, Carlos; Kopecky, Jacek; Maleshkova, Maria and Domingue, John (2011). An Approach to Construct Dynamic Service Mashups using Lightweight Semantics. In: The 3rd International Workshop on Lightweight Integration on the Web (ComposableWeb 2011) at The 11th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2011), 20-24 Jun 2011, Paphos, Cyprus.

Abstract

Thousands of Web services have been available online, and mashups built upon them have been creating added value. However, mashups are mostly developed with a predefined set of services and components. The extensions to them always involve programming work. Furthermore, when a service is unavailable, it is challenging for mashups to smoothly switch to an alternative that others similar functionalities. To address these problems, this paper presents a novel approach to enable mashups to select and invoke semantic Web services on they. To extend a mashup with new semantic services, developers are only required to register and publish them as Linked Data. By refining the strategies of service selection, mashups can behave more adaptively and other higher fault-tolerance.