Authors:
Yacine Rezgui
and
Samia Nefti
Affiliation:
Informatics Research Institute, University of Salford, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Web services, Service composition, Ontology, Semantic Relatedness, Categorization.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Internet and Collaborative Computing
;
Intranet and Extranet Business Applications
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Telecommunications
;
Wireless and Mobile Computing
;
Wireless and Mobile Technologies
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
Abstract:
Organizations need to migrate their legacy systems to higher order applications capable of engaging in automated modes of collaboration to support distributed business processes. This requires a change of focus from
intra-enterprise system integration through agreed data structures to inter-enterprise business process integration through smart composition of web-serviced applications. The paper presents an approach aiming at supporting ontology-based semantic composition of web-services to support distributed electronic business processes. This new generation of composite services is semantically coordinated in a secure, scalable, and resource-aware environment. Two services, at the heart of the service composition exercise are featured, namely: the semantic compatibility and categorization services.