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A key goal of the Semantic Web is to shift social interaction patterns from a producer-centric paradigm to a consumer-centric one. Treating customers as the most valuable assets and making the business models work better for them are at the core of building successful consumer-centric business models. It follows that customizing business processes constitutes a major concern in the realm of a knowledge-pull-based...
Automation of business transactions between trading partners is an important factor in today's global business. XML based e-Business standards are developed to provide a shared understanding on what information to share, when and how between trading partners. However these standards can only capture the syntax of the transactions and not the semantics. This paper presents an ontology for ebXML Business...
In health informatics there is no such mechanism of binding healthcare service providers and requesters that provide publish and retrieval of healthcare services. Healthcare web services should be published with formalized semantic descriptions in a structured and uniform way, to automate healthcare service discovery. The use of semantic web technologies and service oriented computing for efficient...
Firstly, based on the needs of supply-chain management in the environment of E-business, this paper analyzed problem existed in present search engine for apparel-goods and proposed a new kind of distributed search engine for apparel goods based on semantic web services, and then discussed its architecture. Secondly, this paper introduced apparel ontology design model and the representation method...
The Semantic Programming Language (SPL) employs concepts and its relationships in ontology to specify the data used within a process and implements data flow via semantic variables. Therefore, one of the most challenging aspects in Semantic Web Services orchestration realized by SPL is transforming ontological represented data into XML data with equivalent meaning. In This paper, we propose an Ontology-Based...
e-Business standards are recognised as one of the most important drivers of Business to Business Integration. These standards seek to provide unambiguous specifications for error-free exchange of documents and information between trading partners. These standards are however, syntax based and do not guarantee semantic interoperability between partners. This paper proposes the utilisation of semantic...
We describe a model-driven translation approach between semantic Web service based business process models in the context of the SUPER project. In SUPER we provide a set of business process ontologies for enabling access to the business process space inside the organisation at the semantic level. One major task in this context is to handle the translations between the provided ontologies in order...
Location-Based Services (LBS) are information and entertainment services, accessible with mobile devices and making use of the position of the mobile device. Although LBS are now widely used, better results could be obtained by merging information issued by several services. Inter-LBS collaboration is still uncommon although a lot of work is done on service orchestration languages such as WS-BPEL...
The field of financial information analysis and decision is a conceptually rich domain where information is complex, huge in volume and a highly valuable business product by itself. XBRL needs significant extensions when faced to the actual needs of content managers that deal with advanced financial information. This paper designs an ontology-augmented XBRL extended model and one system architecture...
The grand vision of Tim Barners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) founded in 1994, of changing the nonsemantic Web (Web 1.0, Web 2.0) to semantic Web (Web 3.0) will connect all the Web sites and will make their systems interoperable. Though this system has not been fully matured yet, the goal of utilizing the full potential of the Web by creating an interoperable knowledge whole...
Semantic Web Service technology provides a strong support for automation software development based on Web service. By analyzing the existing description models and methods of semantic Web service, a Semantic Web Service Description Model (WSDM4S) and its formal description based on SHOIN+(D) are proposed, which attempt to offer an effective model for description, publication, discovery, composition,...
The lack of semantics in Web services description language (WSDL) prevents automatic discovery and hence automatic invocation and composition. In our work, we are interested in extending existing approaches for the description of semantic Web services. Previously, we have extended the W3C recommendation on semantics for Web services (SAWSDL) and have proposed the use of two types of ontologies: a...
Semantic Business Process Management is a recent and promising research area devoted to extending the results from Semantic Web Services - i.e., the application of ontology-based modelling and reasoning to Web Services - to Business Process Management, which is these days often realised using Service-Oriented Architectures. One important task for Semantic Business Process Management is the addition...
The Web services technology is founded on the use of a number of standards based particularly on XML, such as SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and BPEL. However, these standards are not sufficient to allow an automation of the various tasks of the Web service's life cycle, namely the discovery, the invocation, the publication and the composition. Recently, the W3C consortium produced the SAWSDL language. This language...
In this paper, we present a formal description of Web services container architecture based on Z notation. This description major focuses on internal behavior of a Web services container on processing a Web services request. First, we present a formal model of tailored XML which provides a unified data structure for executing Web services specifications and data transformation. Then, we present a...
In the Service Oriented Architecture paradigm, services are self-contained software units of functionality. Several services can be composed to assemble a composite one that provides an overall functionality. This process is called Service Composition. The automation of the service composition process aims at decreasing the human intervention during the service discovery, matching, filtering and reasoning...
There are numerous existing notations and standards in the Web service community. These may be grouped broadly into three competing families, namely; Web services, semantic Web, and electronic business. Although the families are competing, we expect that applications will cut across them and there is a need to map from one to another and to analyze compatibility and other properties. Therefore we...
This paper describes a methodology that enterprises can use to adapt their software applications, both intra-net and inter-net systems, to the changes of their business environment. The methodology enables agile software development based on a Web process architecture that executes ontology-based business processes as workflow systems. Ontology construction technology is used to extract business model...
Process models to support user objectives are used across several domains, such as eLearning or Business Process Management. Usually, specific metadata schemas, such as the XML bindings of the Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) or IMS Learning Design (IMS LD), are used to enable interoperability. Since Web services which are used throughout a process at runtime, are allocated statically within...
Predicting the future is always a dicey business, and never more so than when the subject is the Web. The Web has been evolving so quickly that some say one Web year is the equivalent of three real years. Progress in communication technology has been characterized by a movement from lower to higher levels of abstraction. The semantic Web is not just for the World Wide Web. It represents a set of technologies...
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