Title
A Minimalist Approach to Semantic Annotations for Web Processes Compositions
Abstract
In this paper we propose a new approach to the automated composition of distributed processes described as semantic web services. Current approaches, such as those based on owl-s and wsmo, in spite of their expressive power, are hard to use in practice. Indeed, they require comprehensive and usually large ontological descriptions of the processes, and rather complex (and often inefficient) reasoning mechanisms. In our approach, we reduce to the minimum the usage of ontological descriptions of processes, so that we can perform a limited, but efficient and useful, semantic reasoning for composing web services. The key idea is to keep separate the procedural and the ontological descriptions, and to link them through semantic annotations. We define the formal framework, and propose a technique that can exploit simple reasoning mechanisms at the ontological level, integrated with effective reasoning mechanisms devised for procedural descriptions of web services.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11762256_45
ESWC
Keywords
Field
DocType
composing web service,large ontological description,semantic reasoning,reasoning mechanism,minimalist approach,effective reasoning mechanism,semantic web service,semantic annotation,ontological description,simple reasoning mechanism,ontological level
Ontology,Data mining,WSMO,Semantic Web Stack,Information retrieval,Computer science,Semantic Web,Description logic,Social Semantic Web,Web service,Semantics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4011
0302-9743
3-540-34544-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
0.72
15
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Pistore13021181.74
Luca Spalazzi219734.55
Paolo Traverso33483223.80