Foundations for specifying OWL-S groundings
by Gerald C. Gannod, Raynette J. Brodie, John T.E. Timm
International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), Vol. 2, No. 1, 2007

Abstract: OWL-Sis an ontology in theWeb Ontology Language (OWL) that is used to describe and specify semantic web services. While OWL-S provides a promising mechanism for specification, publication, discovery, integration and access, the learning curve can be steep. As such, tool support for generating OWL-S specifications is a necessary requirement for effectively using the language for complex service orchestration. One of the advantages of OWL-S is its flexibility. Specifically, it facilitates the specification of many groundings (e.g. bindings) to a semantic web service. In this paper, we characterise groundings, describe an approach for generating groundings for a semantic web service and demonstrate how the use of lightweight interactive tools can facilitate creation of groundings for a semantic web service.

Online publication date: Wed, 20-Jun-2007

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