Web Service Modeling Ontology

  • Authors:

  • Dumitru Roman;Uwe Keller;Holger Lausen;Jos de Bruijn;Rubén Lara;Michael Stollberg;Axel Polleres;Cristina Feier;Cristoph Bussler;Dieter Fensel

  • Affiliations:

  • (Corresponding author. E-mail: dumitru.roman@deri.org) Digital Enterprise Research Institute Innsbruck (DERI Innsbruck), University of Innsbruck, Austria;Digital Enterprise Research Institute Innsbruck (DERI Innsbruck), University of Innsbruck, Austria;Digital Enterprise Research Institute Innsbruck (DERI Innsbruck), University of Innsbruck, Austria;Digital Enterprise Research Institute Innsbruck (DERI Innsbruck), University of Innsbruck, Austria;Digital Enterprise Research Institute Innsbruck (DERI Innsbruck), University of Innsbruck, Austria;Digital Enterprise Research Institute Innsbruck (DERI Innsbruck), University of Innsbruck, Austria;Digital Enterprise Research Institute Innsbruck (DERI Innsbruck), University of Innsbruck, Austria;Digital Enterprise Research Institute Innsbruck (DERI Innsbruck), University of Innsbruck, Austria;Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland;Digital Enterprise Research Institute Innsbruck (DERI Innsbruck), University of Innsbruck, Austria and Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • Applied Ontology
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The potential to achieve dynamic, scalable and cost-effective marketplaces and eCommerce solutions has driven recent research efforts towards so-called Semantic Web Services that are enriching Web services with machine-processable semantics. To this end, the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO) provides the conceptual underpinning and a formal language for semantically describing all relevant aspects of Web services in order to facilitate the automatization of discovering, combining and invoking electronic services over the Web. In this paper we describe the overall structure of WSMO by its four main elements: ontologies, which provide the terminology used by other WSMO elements, Web services, which provide access to services that, in turn, provide some value in some domain, goals that represent user desires, and mediators, which deal with interoperability problems between different WSMO elements. Along with introducing the main elements of WSMO, we provide a logical language for defining formal statements in WSMO together with some motivating examples from practical use cases which shall demonstrate the benefits of Semantic Web Services.