Semantic Web service composition system supporting multiple service description languages

Abstract

Semantic Web services have become a core technology in developing business operation on the Web. Web service composition is an important activity to leverage the use of semantic Web services. Several composition systems have been proposed to meet this need. However, these systems only support a particular Web service description language such as OWL-S or WSMO, thus limiting the capability of invoking the services available from various sources over the Internet. This paper introduces a Web service composition system which supports multiple service description languages. As of practical aspect, we have implemented the system supporting the two most popular service description languages, i.e. OWL-S and WSMO. However, our design is left open to support additional language if. needed. The composition algorithm employed in our system is based on an existing composition algorithm for OWL-S Web service but it is extended to support WSMO. An example will be introduced to present how the system works. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.