Title: Ontology-dependent two-phase semantic web services discovery and its e-government implementation

Authors: Xia Wang, Sanaullah Nazir, Nikolaos Loutas, Vassilios Peristeras, Wolfgang A. Halang

Addresses: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 12, 28759 Bremen, Germany. ' AOL Ireland, The Brunel Building Block 7A, Heuston South Quarter, Dublin 8, Ireland. ' Information Systems Lab, University of Macedonia, 56 Egnatia str, Thessaloniki, Greece. ' Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan, Galway, Ireland. ' Electrical and Computer Engineering, FernUniversitaet, 58084 Hagen, Germany

Abstract: Although discovery of semantic web services has widely been investigated, the problems to represent the users| informal needs as formal goals and of goal-based service discovery are not addressed sufficiently well, yet. Therefore, an ontology-dependent, two-phase, and goal-based approach to discover semantic web services is proposed. It addresses the formalisation of a user|s needs into formal goals by asking questions. Further, it uses a goal template to discover a set of candidate web services and, then, specifies a goal instance to discover the final web service.

Keywords: semantic web; e-government; electronic government; internet; world wide web; web service modelling ontology; WSMO; execution environments; WSMX; service discovery; two-phase approaches; user needs; informal needs; formal goals; goal-based services; formalisation; goal templates; candidate web services; goal instances; final web service; business process integration; business process management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBPIM.2011.040208

International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, 2011 Vol.5 No.2, pp.173 - 184

Published online: 18 Mar 2015 *

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