A Web service is frequently defined as browser-less access to content on a Web site. The industry’s focus to date has been on providing easy-to-use low-level libraries, tools a...
This paper presents an architecture and a methodology for agent-based Web service discovery and automated composition. We assume that Web services are described with declarative sp...
Web services represent the latest effort of the information technology industry to provide a framework for cross enterprise automation. One principal characteristic of this framewo...
Successful employment of semantic web services depends on the availability of high quality ontologies to describe the domains of these services. As always, building such ontologies...
In today’s Web, Web services are created and updated on the fly. It’s already beyond the human ability to analysis them and generate the composition plan manually. A number of...
Web services are in the midst of making the transition from being a promising technology to being widely used in the industry. However, most efforts to use Web services have been m...
Preeda Rajasekaran, John A. Miller, Kunal Verma, A...
Service interface description languages such as WSDL, and related standards, are evolving rapidly to provide a foundation for interoperation between Web services. At the same time,...
David L. Martin, Massimo Paolucci, Sheila A. McIlr...
Abstract. Hierarchical Task-Network (HTN) based planning techniques have been applied to the problem of composing Web Services, especially when described using the OWL-S service on...
Ugur Kuter, Evren Sirin, Dana S. Nau, Bijan Parsia...
Abstract. The shift from Web pages to Web services enables programmatic access to the near limitless information on the World Wide Web. Autonomous agents should generate concise an...
Michael Czajkowski, Anna L. Buczak, Martin O. Hofm...
This paper proposes an approach to behaviour-based discovery of Web Services by which business rules that govern service behaviour are described as a policy. The policy is represen...