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Using context to enable semantic mediation in web service communities
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
  • Michael Mrissa, University of Namur
  • Philippe Thiran, University of Namur
  • Chirine Ghedira, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
  • Djamal Benslimane, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
  • Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
12-1-2008
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. Copyright 2008 ACM.

ISBN
9781605581071
Publisher
ACM Press
Disciplines
Keywords
  • community,
  • context,
  • mediation,
  • semantics,
  • web services
Scopus ID
77953729510
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.514.1552
Citation Information
Michael Mrissa, Philippe Thiran, Chirine Ghedira, Djamal Benslimane, et al.. "Using context to enable semantic mediation in web service communities" ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Vol. 292 (2008) p. 3
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/zakaria-maamar/179/