Programming from specifications
Programming from specifications
User-tailorable systems: pressing the issues with buttons
CHI '90 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Inheritance, defaults and the lexicon
Inheritance, defaults and the lexicon
Default inheritance in an object-oriented representation of linguistic categories
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: object-oriented approaches in artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction
Addendum to the proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications (Addendum)
The process recombinator: a tool for generating new business process ideas
ICIS '99 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Information Systems
How can cooperative work tools support dynamic group process? bridging the specificity frontier
CSCW '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Behavioral contracts and behavioral subtyping
Proceedings of the 8th European software engineering conference held jointly with 9th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
On the Frame Problem in Procedure Specifications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Designing an Object-Oriented Programming Language with Behavioural Subtyping
Proceedings of the REX School/Workshop on Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages
Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook
Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook
Modeling and Query Patterns for Process Retrieval in OWL
ISWC '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference
Defeasible inheritance with doubt index and its axiomatic characterization
Artificial Intelligence
Semantic Web service discovery: state-of-the-art and research challenges
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
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Currently proposed Semantic Web Services technologies allow the creation of ontology-based semantic annotations of Web services so that software agents are able to discover, invoke, compose and monitor these services with a high degree of automation. The OWL Services (OWL-S) ontology is an upper ontology in OWL language, providing essential vocabularies to semantically describe Web services. Currently OWL-S services can only be developed independently; if one service is unavailable then finding a suitable alternative would require an expensive and difficult global search/match. It is desirable to have a new OWL-S construct that can systematically support substitution tracing as well as incremental development and reuse of services. Introducing inheritance relationship (IR) into OWL-S is a natural solution. However, OWL-S, as well as most of the other currently discussed formalisms for Semantic Web Services such as WSMO or SAWSDL, has yet to define a concrete and self-contained mechanism of establishing inheritance relationships among services, which we believe is very important for the automated annotation and discovery of Web services as well as human organization of services into a taxonomy-like structure. In this paper, we extend OWL-S with the ability to define and maintain inheritance relationships between services. Through the definition of an additional "inheritance profile", inheritance relationships can be stated and reasoned about. Two types of IRs are allowed to grant service developers the choice to respect the "contract" between services or not. The proposed inheritance framework has also been implemented and the prototype will be briefly evaluated as well.