Enabling Semantic Web Services

This book offers a practical introduction to Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO), from the fundamentals to applications in e-commerce, e-government and e-banking, also describing its relation to related technology like OWL-S and WSDL-S. Also offers pointers to future research.

Service-oriented computing has become one of the predominant factors in current IT research and development. Web services seem to be the middleware solution of the future for highly interoperable distributed software solutions. In parallel, research on the Semantic Web provides the results required to exploit distributed machine-processable data. To combine these two research lines into industrial-strength applications, a number of research projects have been set up by organizations like W3C and the EU.

Dieter Fensel and his coauthors deliver a profound introduction into one of the most promising approaches the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO). After a brief presentation of the underlying basic technologies and standards of the World Wide Web, the Semantic Web, and Web Services, they detail all the elements of WSMO from basic concepts to possible applications in e-commerce, e-government and e-banking, and they also describe its relation to other approaches like OWL-S or WSDL-S.

While many of the related technologies and standards are still under development, this book already offers both a broad conceptual introduction and lots of pointers to future application scenarios for researchers in academia and industry as well as for developers of distributed Web applications.

Comprehensive overview on how to enable semantic web services In-depth presentation of WSMO standard Exciting stimulus for numerous real-world applications Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel is the scientific director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI). His current research interests include Ontologies, Semantic Web, Web Services, Knowledge Management, Enterprise Application Integration, and Electronic Commerce. He has been involved in several national and international research projects, for example, in the IST projects DIP, IBROW, Knowledge Web, On-To-Knowledge, Ontoweb, SWWS, and Wonderweb. He is the project coordinator of dip, Knowledge Web, Ontoknowledge, Ontoweb, and SWWS. He published around 150 papers as books and journals, book, conference, and workshop contributions and won the Carl-Adam-Petri-Award of the Faculty of Economic Sciences from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (2000).

Inhalt
Foundations.- The World Wide Web.- The Semantic Web.- Web Services.- The Web Service Modeling Ontology.- to WSMO.- The Concepts of WSMO.- WSML a Language for WSMO.- Related Work in the Area of Semantic Web Service Frameworks.- Tools and Applications.- Semantic Web Service Usage Tasks in WSMO.- Tools.- Applications of WSMO.- Conclusion and Outlook.