Enriching ebXML Registries with OWL Ontologies for Efficient Service Discovery

  • Authors:
  • Asuman Dogac;Yildiray Kabak;Gokce B. Laleci

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • RIDE '04 Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Web Services for E-Commerce and E-Government Applications (RIDE'04)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Web services, like their real life counterparts have severalproperties and thus truly useful semantic informationcan only be defined through standard ontology languages.Semantic Web is an important initiative in this respect.However, although service registries are the major mechanismsto discover services, the semantic support providedby service registries is completely detached from the SemanticWeb effort.In this paper, we address how ebXML registries can beenriched through OWL ontologies to describe Web servicesemantics. We describe how the various constructs of OWLcan be mapped to ebXML classification hierarchies andshow how the stored semantics can be queried through standardizedqueries by using the ebXML query facility.We also provide our observations on how ebXML registriescan be extended to provide more efficient semantic support.