Efficient semantic web service matching using common ontology

To solve the bottleneck problem in centralized service discovery methods,a novel architecture based on domain ontology for semantic service discovery is proposed.This distributed architecture can adjust the domain partition and allocate system resources automatically.The characteristics of this mechanism are analyzed,including scalability,self-organization and adaptability.In this mechanism,semantic web service discovery is separated into two parts.First,under balance tree topology,registry proxy can rapidly forward requests to the objective registry center,and avoid the bottleneck problem.Secondly,a semantic distance based service matching algorithm is proposed to promote the effect of service searching.The results of simulation experiments show that the proposed mechanism can serve as a scalable solution for semantic web service publication and discovery.And the improved matching algorithm has higher recall and precision than other algorithms.

Ontology在Semantic Web Services中的应用综述

介绍了Web Services的基本原理和Ontology的基本概念。基于这两种技术的结合,简单描述了多种基于本体的Web语言的发展,并重点阐述其中的OWL语言及其在Web Services中应用OWL-S的主要内容。最后介绍本体在语义web服务中的一些拓展性的应用。

Chaining Distributed Geographic Information Web Services Based on Ontology

To solve the problem of chaining distributed geographic information Web services （GI Web services）, this paper provides an ontology-based method. With this method, semantic service description can be achieved by semantic annotation of the elements in a Web service description language（WSDL） document with concepts of geographic ontology, and then a common under-standing about service semantics between customers and providers of Web services is built. Based on the decomposition and formalization of customer requirements, the discovery, composition and execution of GI Web services are explained in detail, and then a chaining of GI Web services is built and used to achieve the customer＇s requirement. Finally, an example based on Web ontology language for service （OWL-S） is provided for testing the feasibility of this method.

Capability matchmaking of semantic web services with preconditions and effects

In order to solve the problem that the current matchmaking methods for semantic web service mainly focus on the matchmaking of IO （inputs, outputs） descriptions which may result in one-sidedness, a description-logic-based IOPE （inputs, outputs, preconditions, effects） description and matchmaking method is proposed for semantic web service. The description logic concept is used to annotate service IO and the description logic assertion is employed to describe service PE（preconditions, effects）. TBox subsumption checking is used to measure the subsumption relationship between IO descriptions of service request and advertising; ABox consistency checking is used for checking the logical implication between PE descriptions of service request and advertising. Based upon the logical implication, four kinds of PE matching degrees are proposed to measure and compare the pros and cons of the results of matchmaking. They are the exact, perfect, side-effect and common match. Experiments show that the method has a higher precision rate under the same recall rate compared with the existing method.

Reducing semantic bias of annotations for semantic web service discovery

In order to improve the effectiveness of semantic web service discovery, the semantic bias between an interface parameter and an annotation is reduced by extracting semantic restrictions for the annotation from the description context and generating refined semantic annotations, and then the semantics of the web service is refined. These restrictions are dynamically extracted from the parsing tree of the description text, with the guide of the restriction template extracted from the ontology definition. New semantic annotations are then generated by combining the original concept with the restrictions and represented via refined concept expressions. In addition, a novel semantic similarity measure for refined concept expressions is proposed for semantic web service discovery. Experimental results show that the matchmaker based on this method can improve the average precision of discovery and exhibit low computational complexity. Reducing the semantic bias by utilizing restriction information of annotations can refine the semantics of the web service and improve the discovery effectiveness.

Heuristic web service composition method based on domain ontology

In order to realize automatic web service composition, a heuristic web service composition method based on domain ontology is proposed. First, this method integrates the domain ontology and the artificial intelligence （AI） planning algorithm. Then, it uses the domain ontology and its reasoning capability to infer the semantic relationship among parameters. Finally, it transforms the web service composition problem into the planning problem based on the AI planning heuristic algorithm. The preliminary experimental results show that the above method compensates for the lack of semantics in the previous AI planning method and it can satisfy the requirements of quality and efficiency of composition, thus generating composite web services according to customer requirements automatically and efficiently.

Fishery Web Service Composition Method Based on Ontology

Various fishery information systems have been developed in different times and on different platforms. Wet） service application composition is crucial in the sharing and integration of fishery data and information. In the present paper, a heuristic web service composition method based on fishery ontology is presented, and the proposed web services are described. Ontology reasoning capability was applied to generate a service composition graph. The heuristic function was introduced to reduce the searching space. The experimental results show that the algorithm used considers the services semantic similarity and adiusts web service composition plan by dynamically relying on the empirical data.

基于Web Services/Ontology的异构系统集成框架

Web Services是一种面向服务的体系结构,其突出优点是实现了真正意义上的平台独立性和语言独立性。Ontology是集成各种异构系统时语义统一的有效方案。本文在分析了Web Services/Ontology的体系结构和关键技术后,提出了一个基于Web Services的Ontology集成框架,并对框架的工作原理进行了研究。该框架可以有效地用于处理复杂环境下各种异构系统的集成。

基于Ontology的移动Agent对Web Services的访问研究

在语义Web Services的理论基础上,提出了一个基于Ontology的移动Agent访问Web Services的结构模型,并将Agent间的通讯语言KQML用于Agent与Web Services的交互,同时给出了用XML封装KQML消息层原语的示例。

基丁Ontology和Web Service的智能电子商务模型

本文在简要介绍webservice、ontology和多agent等相关技术的基础上,提出了一种智能的电子商务模型架构。

Pre-filtering based automatic composition of multi-QoS semantic web services

To support the rapid automatic services composition and fulfill multi-quality of service （multi- QoS） demand, we propose a novel approach to realize services composition automatically by a prefihering process. Aimed at a set of web services with similar functionality and different quality of service （QoS） , a semantic services chain is given and a corresponding constructing algorithm is proposed to construct the data structure. A pre-filtering process is put forward to find whether a composition service before planning exists. It can avoid aborted planning. An optimal planning algorithm is proposed which can choose the most suitable service from a lot of similar candidate services based on semantic service chains and multi-QoS values. The algorithms can improve the correctness and automation performances of automated semantic web services composition. As an example, a concrete composite process is analyzed. Experimental results show the validity of the composite process.

Review of Semantic Web Service Composition Based on OWL-S

By analyzing of the existing Web services,an ontology based on OWL is presented,which has rich semantic information,and the service description language OWL-S based on OWL is put forward. OWL-S through IOPE can describe services,can also combine the service,but the method of combination service is not automatic. So a method is presented by using Situation Calculus for automatic service composition based on the OWL-S model. Finally through the example analysis,the method of automatic service combination was validated.

Semantic Web Services架构

近年来，随着电子商务的兴起和蓬勃发展，Web应用从局部化发展到全球化，从B2C（Busiliess—to—Customer）发展到B2B（Busincss—to—Busitiess），从集中式发展到分布式。Web服务作为一种新兴的Web应用模式，是一个崭新的分布式计算模型，是Web上数据和信息集成的有效机制。从电子商务应用领域来看，复杂的应用连接和程序代码造成了电子商务应用的高维护代价和更新代价，而Web服务正好能解决这一问题，成为目前应用环境中最为理想的解决方案。

Applications of Norm and Situation Calculus in the Semantic Web Service Composition

Semantic Web service studies are carried out around the OWL-S, however, OWL-S model does not contain the descrip-tion of preferences and constraints when we choose and use them in different organizations, different cultures, different sectors and actors because of OWL capacity limitations in rules. It means that Semantic Web service composition can not compose users’ subjective services from the user requirements. The paper makes up for the semantic shortcoming of OWL-S through using norm semantic scalability, and achieves the formal description of the norm by using the situation calculus. Finally, the paper also takes a tourism composite service as an example how to extend the ability of the semantic description of OWL-S, which shows us the combination of the norm and the situation calculus. It is positive significance for eventually realizing semantic extension of OWL-S.

Task-oriented web service discovery algorithm using semantic similarity for adaptive service composition

In order to achieve adaptive and efficient service composition, a task-oriented algorithm for discovering services is proposed. The traditional process of service composition is divided into semantic discovery and functional matching and makes tasks be operation objects. Semantic similarity is used to discover services matching a specific task and then generate a corresponding task-oriented web service composition （TWC） graph. Moreover, an algorithm for the new service is designed to update the TWC. The approach is applied to the composition model, in which the TWC is searched to obtain an optimal path and the final service composition is output. Also, the model can implement realtime updating with changing environments. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the algorithm and indicate that the maximum searching radius can be set to 2 to achieve an equilibrium point of quality and quantity.

Web services selection based on semantic similarity

Services discovery based on syntactic matching cannot adapt to the open and dynamic environment of the web. To select the proper one from the web services candidate set provided by syntactic matching, a service selection method based on semantic similarity is proposed. First, this method defines a web services ontology including QoS and context as semantic supporting, which also provides a set of terms to describe the interfaces of web services. Secondly, the similarity degree of two web services is evaluated by computing the semantic distances of those terms used to describe interfaces. Compared with existing methods, interfaces of web services can be interpreted under ontology, because it provides a formal and semantic specification of conceptualization. Meanwhile, efficiency and accuracy of services selection are improved.

Quality Model and Metrics of Ontology for Semantic Descriptions of Web Services

An ontology is a conceptualisation of domain knowledge. It is employed in semantic web services technologies to describe the meanings of services so that they can be dynamically searched for and composed according to their meanings. It is essential for dynamic service discovery, composition, and invocation. Whether an ontology is well constructed has a tremendous impact on the accuracy of the semantic description of a web service, the complexity of the semantic definitions, the efficiency of processing messages passed between services, and the precision and recall rates of service retrieval from service registrations. However, measuring the quality of an ontology remains an open problem. Works on the evaluation of ontologies do exist, but they are not in the context of semantic web services. This paper addresses this problem by proposing a quality model of ontology and defining a set of metrics that enables the quality of an ontology to be measured objectively and quantitatively in the context of semantic descriptions of web services. These metrics cover the contents, presentation, and usage aspects of ontologies. The paper also presents a tool that implements these metrics and reports a case study on five real-life examples of web services.

Supporting web services reuse by semantic service component and composition pattern

Due to the fact that the existing web service description methods cannot address the issue of service reuse of various levels of granularity, the concept of service component is introduced, which packages together web services and choreography, and their operations and properties are presented in a consistent and uniform manner. Service components are published externally as normal web services and can thus be employed by webbased applications. In order to improve reusability and testability of service components, the concept of composition pattern is also proposed, which presents the relationships among service components. The relationships and relationship compositions have a rigorous semantic, so that composite components can be validated at the configuration stage. The composition patterns support to integrate service components of various levels of granularity. Experience indicates that the application assembly can effectively be conducted by understanding, selecting, and reusing components easily.

A Service Design Oriented Web Services Composite Platform

In order to realize flexible, adaptable, extensible, efficient, and user-friendly service composition, we propose a service design oriented Web Service composite platform （SDOWSCP） and a service composition mechanism called composed-service-requestor-orient ed service composition （OBSDOSC）. SDOWSCP imports ontology into UDDI to define and annotate services in a flexible and intuitive manner and employs a concept of bond as a solution to the process heterogeneity. OBSDOSC is proposed in order to do some efforts to overcome some defects which current design tools usually have such as not user friendly and too professional. This paper proposes a pattern which describes the basic features of semi-automatic composite mode, discusses the whole lifetime of composed service and highlights how to lessen the descriptive heterogeneity and process heterogeneity and how to facilitate the design of composing a service.

Web Service Description and Discovery Based on Semantic Model

A novel semantic model of Web service descrip tion and discovery was proposed through an extension for profile model of Web ontology language for services （OWL-S） in this paper. Similarity matching of Web services was implemented through computing weighted summation of semantic similarity value based on specific domain ontology and dynamical satisfy extent evaluation for quality of service （QoS）. Experiments show that the provided semantic matching model is efficient.