Semantic Web Services

Under Semantic Web Services (SWS) refers to Web services , which through its purely syntactic interface description are enriched addition with semantic content to their discovery ( Discovery to) Select (Selection), Run (Invocation) and its composition with other as well as various other aspects facilitate. Techniques from the field of semantic web are used. Only the merging of these technologies with those of the previous web services enable the realization of the vision of the Semantic Web. As Tim Berners-Lee pointed out in 1998, it differs from the previous World Wide Web through a further development in automation (web services) and in the enrichment of information with meaning (semantics).

Specifications in the context of the SWS

• OWL-S
• SAWSDL
• WSML (and also WSMO )
• RBSLA (based on RuleML )

Projects

• Adaptive Services Grid (ASG)
• Data, Information, and Process Integration (DIP)
• SemanticGov
• Rule Based Service Level Agreements (RBSLA)

literature

• Dominik Kuropka, Steffen Staab, Peter Tröger, Mathias Weske (eds.): Semantic Service Provisioning . Springer, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-78616-0 .

Web links

• http://www.w3.org/Submission/OWL-S/
• http://www.semantic-gov.org/
• http://dip.semanticweb.org
• http://www.w3.org/TR/sawsdl
• http://www.wsmo.org/