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Using context to enable semantic mediation in web service communities

Authors:

Michael Mrissa,

Philippe Thiran,

Chirine Ghedira,

Djamal Benslimane,

Zakaria MaamarAuthors Info & Claims

CSSSIA '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Context enabled source and service selection, integration and adaptation: organized with the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008)

Article No.: 3, Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/1361482.1361485

Published: 22 April 2008 Publication History

Abstract

The use of communities provides a scalable solution for gathering and managing functionally-equivalent Web services. In order to ensure single access to the community, a community uses a common interface that acts as a proxy and selects other Web services in the community. However, Web services adopt different semantics for representing the data they receive and send. These semantics must be adapted to conforming to the community semantics. In this paper, we present a solution to this problem. Our solution is based on the use of context in order to explicitly describe semantic discrepancies within a community. We rely on a semantic annotation of WSDL descriptions to describe the semantics attached to Web services, and we provide mediation mechanisms at the community level to handle semantic heterogeneities between Web services and the community. We validate our solution through implementation and experimentation over a test community and show the limitations of our approach.

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Using context to enable semantic mediation in web service communities
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Extra-functional properties
      1. Interoperability

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CSSSIA '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Context enabled source and service selection, integration and adaptation: organized with the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008)

April 2008

63 pages

ISBN:9781605581071

DOI:10.1145/1361482

Editors:
Quan Z. Sheng
The University of Adelaide, Australia
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Ullas Nambiar
IBM India Research Lab, India
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Amit P. Sheth
Wright State University
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Biplav Srivastava
IBM India Research Lab, India
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Zakaria Maamar
Zayed University, UAE
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Said Elnaffar
United Arab Emirates University, UAE

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Bandara KWang MPahl C(2018)An extended ontology-based context model and manipulation calculus for dynamic Web service processesService Oriented Computing and Applications10.1007/s11761-013-0145-39:2(87-106)Online publication date: 13-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11761-013-0145-3
Atif Y(2018)An architectural specification for a system to adapt to learning patternsEducation and Information Technologies10.1007/s10639-010-9125-916:3(259-279)Online publication date: 24-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10639-010-9125-9
Subramanian S(2009)Highly-Available Web Service CommunityProceedings of the 2009 Sixth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations10.1109/ITNG.2009.128(296-301)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ITNG.2009.128

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