TY - BOOK ID - 217928 TI - Modeling Semantic Web Services : The Web Service Modeling Language AU - de Bruijn, Jos. AU - Kerrigan, Mick. AU - Keller, Uwe. AU - Lausen, Holger. AU - Scicluna, James. PY - 2008 SN - 1281513091 9786611513092 3540681728 3540681698 364208785X PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Semantic Web. KW - Web services. KW - Application software KW - Cloud computing KW - Semantic integration (Computer systems) KW - Semantic networks (Information theory) KW - World Wide Web KW - Microformats KW - Computer science. KW - Library science. KW - Information technology. KW - Software engineering. KW - Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). KW - Computer Science, general. KW - Library Science. KW - e-Commerce/e-business. KW - IT in Business. KW - Software Engineering. KW - Librarianship KW - Library economy KW - Bibliography KW - Documentation KW - Information science KW - Informatics KW - Science KW - Computer software engineering KW - Engineering KW - IT (Information technology) KW - Technology KW - Telematics KW - Information superhighway KW - Knowledge management KW - Application software. KW - E-commerce. KW - Business—Data processing. KW - Cybercommerce KW - E-business KW - E-commerce KW - E-tailing KW - eBusiness KW - eCommerce KW - Electronic business KW - Internet commerce KW - Internet retailing KW - Online commerce KW - Web retailing KW - Commerce KW - Application computer programs KW - Application computer software KW - Applications software KW - Apps (Computer software) KW - Computer software UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:217928 AB - Semantic Web services promise to automate tasks such as discovery, mediation, selection, composition, and invocation of services, enabling fully flexible automated e-business. Their usage, however, still requires a significant amount of human intervention due to the lack of support for a machine-processable description. In this book, Jos de Bruijn and his coauthors lay the foundations for understanding the requirements that shape the description of the various aspects related to Semantic Web services, such as the static background knowledge in the form of ontologies, the functional description of the service, and the behavioral description of the service. They introduce the Web Service Modeling Language (WSML), which provides means for describing the functionality and behavior of Web services, as well as the underlying business knowledge, in the form of ontologies, with a conceptual grounding in the Web Service Modeling Ontology. Academic and industrial researchers as well as professionals will find a comprehensive overview of the concepts and challenges in the area of Semantic Web services, the Web Services Modeling Language and its relation to the Web Services Modeling Ontology, and an in-depth treatment of both enabling technologies and theoretical foundations. ER -