Semantic Web Services : Advancement Through Evaluation

Over the last decade, a great amount of effort and resources have been invested in the development of Semantic Web Service (SWS) frameworks. Numerous description languages, frameworks, tools, and matchmaking and composition algorithms have been proposed. Nevertheless, when faced with a real-world problem, it is still very hard to decide which of these different approaches to use. In this book, the editors present an overall overview and comparison of the main current evaluation initiatives for SWS. The presentation is divided into four parts, each referring to one of the evaluation initiatives. Part I covers the long-established first two tracks of the Semantic Service Selection (S3) Contest – the OWL-S matchmaker evaluation and the SAWSDL matchmaker evaluation. Part II introduces the new S3 Jena Geography Dataset (JGD) cross evaluation contest. Part III presents the Semantic Web Service Challenge. Lastly, Part IV reports on the semantic aspects of the Web Service Challenge. The introduction to each part provides an overview of the evaluation initiative and overall results for its latest evaluation workshops. The following chapters in each part, written by the participants, detail their approaches, solutions and lessons learned. This book is aimed at two different types of readers. Researchers on SWS technology receive an overview of existing approaches in SWS with a particular focus on evaluation approaches; potential users of SWS technologies receive a comprehensive summary of the respective strengths and weaknesses of current systems and thus guidance on factors that play a role in evaluation. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction....Pages 1-13 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Overview of the S3 Contest: Performance Evaluation of Semantic Service Matchmakers....Pages 17-34 OPOSSUM: Indexing Techniques for an Order-of-Magnitude Improvement of Service Matchmaking Times....Pages 35-47 Adaptive Hybrid Selection of Semantic Services: The iSeM Matchmaker....Pages 49-62 SPARQLent: A SPARQL Based Intelligent Agent Performing Service Matchmaking....Pages 63-82 Semantic Annotations and Web Service Retrieval: The URBE Approach....Pages 83-105 SAWSDL Services Matchmaking Using SAWSDL-iMatcher....Pages 107-122 Self-Adaptive Semantic Matchmaking Using COV4SWS.KOM and LOG4SWS.KOM....Pages 123-140 Front Matter....Pages 141-157 Overview of the Jena Geography Dataset Cross Evaluation....Pages 159-159 Evaluation of Structured Collaborative Tagging for Web Service Matchmaking....Pages 161-171 Ontology Based Discovery of Semantic Web Services with IRS-III....Pages 173-189 Front Matter....Pages 191-202 Overview of the Semantic Web Service Challenge....Pages 203-203 Loosely Coupled Information Models for Business Process Integration: Incorporating Rule-Based Semantic Bridges into BPEL....Pages 205-216 The XMDD Approach to the Semantic Web Services Challenge....Pages 217-231 Service Offer Discovery in the SWS Challenge Shipment Discovery Scenario....Pages 233-248 A Solution to the Logistics Management Scenario with the Glue2 Web Service Discovery Engine....Pages 249-262 The COSMO Solution to the SWS Challenge Mediation Problem Scenarios: An Evaluation....Pages 263-277 Front Matter....Pages 279-294 Overview of theWeb Services Challenge (WSC): Discovery and Composition of SemanticWeb Services....Pages 295-295 Effective QoS Aware Service Composition Based on Forward Chaining with Service Space Restriction....Pages 297-311 Front Matter....Pages 313-328 Semantics-Based Web Service Composition Engine....Pages 295-295 Efficient Composition of Semantic Web Services with End-to-End QoS Optimization....Pages 329-343 Back Matter....Pages 345-355 ....Pages 357-359