At the "functional level", Semantic Web Services (SWS) are described akin to planning operators, with preconditions and effects relative to an ontology; the ontology prov...
The ability to automatically compose web services, and to monitor their execution, is an essential step to substantially decrease time and costs in the development, integration, a...
Marco Pistore, Fabio Barbon, Piergiorgio Bertoli, ...
Automation of Web service composition is one of the most interesting challenges facing the Semantic Web today. In this paper we propose a mean of performing automated Web service ...
In Service-Oriented MAS middle-agents provide different kinds of matchmaking functionalities. If no adequate services are available for a specific request, a planning functionalit...
The need to add semantic information to web-accessible services has created a growing research activity in this area. Standard initiatives such as OWL-S and WSDL enable the automat...