Semantic Description of Web Services
This work addresses the challenge of improving web service tasks like discovery and composition for researchers and practitioners, but it is incremental as it focuses on summarizing existing methods rather than introducing new ones.
The paper tackles the problem of enabling seamless interoperation between systems with minimal human intervention by using semantic descriptions for web services, and it provides a detailed classification of existing approaches and solutions in the field.
The tasks of semantic web service (discovery, selection, composition, and execution) are supposed to enable seamless interoperation between systems, whereby human intervention is kept at a minimum. In the field of Web service description research, the exploitation of descriptions of services through semantics is a better support for the life-cycle of Web services. The large number of developed ontologies, languages of representations, and integrated frameworks supporting the discovery, composition and invocation of services is a good indicator that research in the field of Semantic Web Services (SWS) has been considerably active. We provide in this paper a detailed classification of the approaches and solutions, indicating their core characteristics and objectives required and provide indicators for the interested reader to follow up further insights and details about these solutions and related software.