Reasoning on activity-centered semantics in request-service matchmaking

Abstract

Web service and Semantic Web technologies impose the restructuring of the organization processes and the resolution of specific problems. Still a problem is the request-service matchmaking in a service-oriented process. The paper proposes a solution for optimizing it, based on activity-centered semantics for the service definition/ annotation and for the request composition. It proposes the use of ontology-based templates semantically compatible for activities, services and requests and their reuse by similar categories of providers. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.