Semantics-based composition-oriented discovery of Web services

  • Authors:
  • Antonio Brogi;Sara Corfini;Razvan Popescu

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy;University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy;University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Service discovery and service aggregation are two crucial issues in the emerging area of service-oriented computing (SOC). We propose a new technique for the discovery of (Web) services that accounts for the need of composing several services to satisfy a client query. The proposed algorithm makes use of OWL-S ontologies, and explicitly returns the sequence of atomic process invocations that the client must perform in order to achieve the desired result. When no full match is possible, the algorithm features a flexible matching by returning partial matches and by suggesting additional inputs that would produce a full match.