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A context-based mediation approach to compose semantic Web services

Authors:

Michael Mrissa,

Chirine Ghedira,

Djamal Benslimane,

Zakaria Maamar,

Florian Rosenberg,

Schahram DustdarAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Volume 8, Issue 1

Pages 4 - es

https://doi.org/10.1145/1294148.1294152

Published: 01 November 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Web services composition is a keystone in the development of interoperable systems. However, despite the widespread adoption of Web services, several obstacles still hinder their smooth automatic semantic reconciliation when being composed. Consistent understanding of data exchanged between composed Web services is hampered by various implicit modeling assumptions and representations. Our contribution in this article revolves around context and how it enriches data exchange between Web services. In particular, a context-based mediation approach to solve semantic heterogeneities between composed Web services is presented.

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A context-based mediation approach to compose semantic Web services
1. Software and its engineering
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    1. Extra-functional properties
      1. Interoperability

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ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Volume 8, Issue 1

November 2007

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DOI:10.1145/1294148

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