Extending semantic Web service description by service assumption

Authors

Zheng Lu, University of WollongongFollow
Shiyan Li, University of Wollongong
Aditya K. Ghose, University of WollongongFollow
Peter Hyland, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

18526

Publication Details

This paper was originally published as: Lu, Z, Li, S, Ghose, A & Hyland, P, Extending semantic Web service description by service assumption, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2006 (WI2006), Hong Kong, China , December 2006, 637-643. Copyright IEEE 2006.

Abstract

Unlike a traditional software module, which runs within a predictable domain, Web Services are autonomous software agents running in a heterogeneous execution environment. Because of distributed responsibilities, ownership and control, it is often not feasible to acquire all information needed for the service composition. These characteristics of autonomy and heterogeneity are fundamental to service oriented computing but make it inherently difficult to avoid service conflicts. To reason about and adapt to a changing environment, in this work, we will extend current OWL-S by introducing the concept of service assumptions which allow reasoning with incomplete information. Furthermore, together with the proposed service assumptions, a sequence of rules is proposed to describe all permitted behaviors in service composition context.