Inferring Data Transformation Rules to Integrate Semantic Web Services

Abstract. OWL-S allows selecting, composing and invoking Web Serdifferent levels of abstraction: selection uses high level abstract descriptions, invocation uses low level grounding ones, while composition needs to consider both high and low level descriptions. In our setting, two Web Services are to be composed so that output from the upstream one is used to create input for the downstream one. These Web Services may have different data models but are related to each other through high and low level descriptions. Correspondences must be found between components of the upstream data type and the downstream ones. Low level data transformation functions may be required (e.g. unit conversions, data type conversions). The components may be arranged in different XML tree structures. Thus, multiple data transformations are necessary: reshaping the message tree, matching leaves by corresponding types, translating through ontologies, and calling conversion functions. Our prototype compiles ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: SEMWEB
• Authors: Bruce Spencer, Sandy Liu
• Keywords: Data Transformation, Low Level, Low Level Descriptions, SEMWEB 2004