Semantic Web Services Challenge: Results from the First Year (Semantic Web and Beyond) [Hardcover]

Charles Petrie (Editor), Tiziana Margaria (Editor), Holger Lausen (Editor), Michal Zaremba (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0387724958 | ISBN-13: 978-0387724959 | Publication Date: December 4, 2008 | Edition: 1

This is an edited volume that develops a common understanding of the various technologies intended to facilitate the automation of mediation, choreography and discovery for Web Services using semantic annotations. The volume explores trade-offs among existing approaches, and reveals strengths and weaknesses of proposed approaches, as well as which aspects of the problem are not yet covered. The book is designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers in industry. Professionals can use it to evaluate SWS technology for their potential practical use. The book is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science.

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From the Back Cover

Service-Oriented Computing is one of the most promising software engineering trends because of the potential to reduce the programming effort for future distributed industrial systems. However, only a small part of this potential rests on the standardization of tools offered by the web services stack. The larger part of this potential rests upon the development of sufficient semantics to automate service orchestration. Currently there are many different approaches to semantic web service descriptions and many frameworks built around them. A common understanding, evaluation scheme, and test bed to compare and classify these frameworks in terms of their capabilities and shortcomings, is necessary to make progress in developing the full potential of Service-Oriented Computing. The Semantic Web Services Challenge is an open source initiative that provides a public evaluation and certification of multiple frameworks on common industrially-relevant problem sets. This edited volume reports on the first results in developing common understanding of the various technologies intended to facilitate the automation of mediation, choreography and discovery for Web Services using semantic annotations. Semantic Web Services Challenge: Results from the First Year is designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers in industry. Professionals can use this book to evaluate SWS technology for their potential practical use. The book is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 312 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (December 4, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0387724958
• ISBN-13: 978-0387724959
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
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