Author:
Daniel Bachlechner
Affiliation:
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Keyword(s):
Semantic Web services, integration architectures, industrial adoption, SWOT analysis.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Cloud Computing
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Enterprise Information Systems
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Semantic Web Technologies
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Services Science
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Software Agents and Internet Computing
Abstract:
Web services brought about a revolution by taking a remarkable step toward seamless integration of distributed software components. The importance of Web services as a cornerstone of service-oriented integration architectures is recognized and widely accepted by experts from industry and academia. Current Web service technology, however, operates at the syntactic level and, hence, requires human interaction to a large extent. Semantic Web services pledge the automation of core Web service tasks, such as discovery, selection, composition, and execution, thus enabling interoperation between systems and keeping human intervention to a minimum. Within the scope of this work, we discuss the capabilities of integration architectures based on Semantic Web services as well as relevant environmental factors. The discourse is based on the findings of a SWOT analysis that was conducted in early 2007. In order to best assess the relevance and applicability of integration architectures based on S
emantic Web services in an organisational context, particular importance was attached to differences in the viewpoints of practitioners and researchers.
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