OntoPipeliner: An ontology-based automatic semantic service pipeline generator

  • Authors:

  • Sungin Lee;Senator Jeong;Hong-Gee Kim;Hanmin Jung;Mikyoung Lee;Seungjae Song;Beom-Jong You

  • Affiliations:

  • Biomedical Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea;Biomedical Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea;Biomedical Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea;Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Republic of Korea;Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Republic of Korea;Biomedical Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea;Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The Web is a distributed environment rich with Web services going through continual metamorphosis; thus, sustaining semantic stability of service composition has become a major challenge. Automatic service composition - enabled both by the use of ontologies that describe service domains and by user-specified constraints bound to the ontologies - provides us candidate service pipelines at composition design time. The ontology-based languages for semantically describing web services, such as OWL-S, have been widely used. Though rich and comprehensive in their expressiveness, the use of these languages still leaves much of composition process manual. In this work, we present an ontology-based semantic web service composition system called OntoPipeliner. It employs a novel way of utilizing characteristics of Web services that reflect the classes and properties of domain ontologies and provides the ontology-guided constraints for automatic composition of services, in order to guide the user toward the best pipeline that meets the user requirements.