Computers and the collaborative experience of learning
Computers and the collaborative experience of learning
Unraveling the Web Services Web: An Introduction to SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI
IEEE Internet Computing
What Are Ontologies, and Why Do We Need Them?
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Collaborative Learning in a Web-Accessible Workbench
CRIWG '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Groupware: Design, Implementation and Use
Autonomous Semantic Web Services
IEEE Internet Computing
Introduction: Service-oriented computing
Communications of the ACM - Service-oriented computing
Web Services Lookup: A Matchmaker Experiment
IT Professional
Designing collaborative learning systems: current trends & future research agenda
CSCL '05 Proceedings of th 2005 conference on Computer support for collaborative learning: learning 2005: the next 10 years!
Semantic Description of Collaboration Scripts for Service Oriented CSCL Systems
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Supporting Learning through Intelligent and Socially Informed Technology
Feta: a light-weight architecture for user oriented semantic service discovery
ESWC'05 Proceedings of the Second European conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications
Bringing semantics to web services: the OWL-S approach
SWSWPC'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition
Semantic search of tools for collaborative learning with the Ontoolsearch system
Computers & Education
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
A framework for discovering and classifying ubiquitous services in digital health ecosystems
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Ontoolcole: an ontology for the semantic search of CSCL services
CRIWG'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Groupware: design, implementation, and use
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CSCL systems can benefit from using grids since they offer a common infrastructure enabling access to an extended pool of resources that can provide supercomputing capabilities as well as specific hardware resources. Adopting a service oriented architecture such as OGSA can further benefit CSCL systems, enabling increased flexibility to adapt and reuse learning software offered by third party providers. However, service discovery is a challenge for educators, since they cannot use their own domain abstractions to search for learning services that may support their educational settings. Common service discovery mechanisms, such as the Index Service or UDDI, provide limited discovery capabilities since they rely on keyword matching and cannot deal with the description of service properties. In order to address these drawbacks, formal semantics of ontologies can be employed to represent semantic descriptions of services that can be exploited for service discovery. This paper proposes an ontology of CSCL tools that uses meaningful learning abstractions to describe them. That ontology is the basis of a service discovery facility that is developed for allowing educators to search service-based CSCL tools using learning concepts.