Mobile device technology with the influence of the Internet is creating a lot of Webbased services so that people can have easy and 24-hour access to the services. Recently, the Google’s Android has revolutionized applications development for the mobile platform. As there is an increasing number of companies exposing their services as Web services, enabling flexible mobile access to distributed Web resources is a relevant challenge. However, the current Web is a collection of human readable pages that are unintelligible to computer programs. Semantic Web and Web services have the potential of overcoming this limitation. For this, a standard ontology called Ontology Web Language for Services (OWL-S) is employed. The vision is to automatically discover services like Sensor Web services from mobile. In this thesis, a mobile framework is developed for the automatic discovery of services. The application is implemented for the Coastal Sensor Web and the Semantic Web service.

The shift from Web of Document into Web of Data based on Linked Data principles defined by Tim Berners-Lee posed a big challenge to build and develop applications to work in Web of Data environment. There are several attempts to build service and application models for Linked Data Cloud. In this paper, we propose a new service model for linked data "Linked-OWL" which is based on RESTful services and OWL-S and copes with linked data principles. This new model shifts the service concept from functions into linked data things and opens the road for Linked Oriented Architecture (LOA) and Web of Services as part and on top of Web of Data. This model also provides high level of dynamic service composition capabilities for more accurate dynamic composition and execution of complex business processes in Web of Data environment.

Web Services are self-contained, self-describing, modular applications that can be published, located, and invoked through XML artefacts across the Web. Web services technologies can be applied to many kinds of applications, where they offer considerable advantages compared to the old world of product-specific APIs, platform-specific coding, and other &ldquo / brittle&rdquo / technology restrictions. Currently there are millions of web services available on the web due to the increase in e-commerce business volume. Web services can be discovered using public registries and invoked through respective interfaces. However how to automatically find, compose, invoke and monitor the web services is still an issue. The automatic discovery, composition, invocation and monitoring of web services require that semantics will be attached to service definitions. The focus of this thesis is on the composition of web services. The approach taken is to extend the DAML-S ontology that is used to define the semantics of services to include the &ldquo / succeeding services&rdquo / for any service provided. These definitions for individual service instances are declared by the service providers. They are presented to the users of the service to construct a workflow in a mobile environment. The workflow generated is represented both graphically in the mobile device and in XML-format as a BPEL4WS document. The aim of this thesis is to prove that it is possible to build a semi-automatic web service composition utility incorporating semantic constructs, using a mobile device. The generated workflow is suitable for deployment on an engine where it can be executed multiple times with different configurations.

Submitted by Santos Davilene (davilenes@ufba.br) on 2016-05-25T16:24:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DissertacaoMestradoDCC_Leandro_Andrade.pdf: 4292793 bytes, checksum: 81fe16e2cd1e5c84283f5931ba388398 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-25T16:24:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissertacaoMestradoDCC_Leandro_Andrade.pdf: 4292793 bytes, checksum: 81fe16e2cd1e5c84283f5931ba388398 (MD5) / Criada com a proposta inicial de conectar basicamente documentos HTML, a Web hoje expandiu suas capacidades, tornando-se um ambiente bastante heterogêneo de aplicações, recursos, dados e usuários que interagem entre si. A proposta da Web Semântica, associada aos Serviços Web, busca estabelecer padrões que viabilizem a comunicação entre aplicações heterogêneas na Web. A Web de Dados, outra linha de evolução da Web, fornece orientações (Linked Data) sobre como usar as tecnologias da Web Semântica para publicar e definir ligações semânticas entre dados de diferentes fontes. Contudo, existe uma lacuna na integração entre aplicações baseadas em Serviços Web e aplicações da Web de Dados. Essa lacuna ocorre porque os Serviços Web são “executados”, enquanto que a Web de Dados é “consultada”. Dessa forma, esta dissertação apresenta o Semantic Web (of Data) Services (SWoDS) com objetivo de prover Serviços Web a partir de bases Linked Data. O Semantic Web (of Data) Services pode preencher a lacuna entre Serviços Web e aplicações baseadas na Web de Dados, fazendo que a Web de Dados seja “executada” através de Serviços Web Semânticos. Assim, permitindo que dados Linked Data, através do SWoDS, integrem aos Serviços Web, por meio de operações de composição automática e descoberta de serviços.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:47:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseRSMJ.pdf: 1414617 bytes, checksum: 1d2d0cfcaa6654701268463c98f3c2e9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-29 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / Recently the focus given to Web Services and Semantic Web technologies has provided the development of several research projects in different ways to addressing the Web services composition issue. Meanwhile, the challenge of creating an environment that provides the specification of an abstract business process and that it is automatically implemented by a composite service in a dynamic way is considered a currently open problem. WSDL and BPEL provided by industry support only manual service composition because they lack needed semantics so that Web services are discovered, selected and combined by software agents. Services ontology provided by Semantic Web enriches the syntactic descriptions of Web services to facilitate the automation of tasks, such as discovery and composition. This work presents an environment for specifying and ad-hoc executing Web services-based business processes, named WebFlowAH. The WebFlowAH employs common domain ontology to describe both Web services and business processes. It allows processes specification in terms of users goals or desires that are expressed based on the concepts of such common domain ontology. This approach allows processes to be specified in an abstract high level way, unburdening the user from the underline details needed to effectively run the process workflow / O enfoque dado ultimamente ?s tecnologias de Servi?os Web e da Web Sem?ntica tem proporcionado o desenvolvimento de v?rios projetos de pesquisa abordando, de diferentes maneiras, o tema da composi??o de servi?os Web. Entretanto, o desafio de criar um ambiente que favore?a a especifica??o de um processo de neg?cio abstrato e que seja implementado automaticamente por servi?os compostos de forma din?mica ? considerado atualmente um problema em aberto. Os padr?es WSDL e BPEL providos pela a ind?stria de software suportam apenas a composi??o manual de servi?os, pois falta a eles a sem?ntica necess?ria para que os servi?os Web sejam descobertos, selecionados e combinados por agentes de software. As ontologias de servi?o providas pela Web Sem?ntica enriquecem as descri??es sint?ticas dos servi?os Web de modo a facilitar a automa??o de tarefas, como a descoberta e a composi??o. Este trabalho prop?e um ambiente para a especifica??o e execu??o ad-hoc de processos de neg?cio baseados em servi?os Web chamado WebFlowAH. Este ambiente emprega uma ontologia de dom?nio comum para descrever tanto os servi?os Web e quanto os processos de neg?cio. Ele permite a especifica??o de processos em termos de desejos ou objetivos do usu?rio que s?o expressos por conceitos da ontologia de dom?nio comum. Tal abordagem permite que processos de neg?cio sejam especificados de maneira abstrata e de alto n?vel, liberando o usu?rio de detalhes necess?rios para executar eficazmente o workflow do processo

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:48:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ThiagoPS_DISSERT.pdf: 3143029 bytes, checksum: 0f97ea16a97dc298694ca58c37e62914 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-06 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / Typically Web services contain only syntactic information that describes their interfaces. Due to the lack of semantic descriptions of the Web services, service composition becomes a difficult task. To solve this problem, Web services can exploit the use of ontologies for the semantic definition of service s interface, thus facilitating the automation of discovering, publication, mediation, invocation, and composition of services. However, ontology languages, such as OWL-S, have constructs that are not easy to understand, even for Web developers, and the existing tools that support their use contains many details that make them difficult to manipulate. This paper presents a MDD tool called AutoWebS (Automatic Generation of Semantic Web Services) to develop OWL-S semantic Web services. AutoWebS uses an approach based on UML profiles and model transformations for automatic generation of Web services and their semantic description. AutoWebS offers an environment that provides many features required to model, implement, compile, and deploy semantic Web services / Tipicamente servi?os Web cont?m apenas informa??es sint?ticas que descrevem suas interfaces e a falta de descri??es sem?nticas torna a composi??o de servi?osWeb uma tarefa dif?cil. Para resolver este problema, pode-se usar ontologias para a defini??o sem?ntica da interface dos servi?os, facilitando a automa??o da descoberta, publica??o, media??o, invoca??o e composi??o dos servi?os. No entanto, linguagens que permitem se descrever semanticamente servi?os Web utilizando ontologias, como OWL-S, t?m constru??es que n?o s?o f?ceis de entender, mesmo para desenvolvedoresWeb, e as ferramentas existentes levam aos usu?rios muitos detalhes que as tornam dif?ceis de serem manipuladas. Este trabalho apresenta uma ferramenta chamada AutoWebS (Automatic Generation of Semantic Web Services) para o desenvolvimento de servi?os Web sem?nticos. O AutoWebS usa uma abordagem baseada em perfis UML e transforma??es entre modelos para a gera??o autom?tica de servi?osWeb e sua descri??o sem?ntica em OWL-S. O AutoWebS disponibiliza um ambiente que oferece recursos para modelar, implementar, compilar e implantar servi?os Web sem?nticos

In today&#039 / s world, composite web services are widely used in service oriented computing, web mashups and B2B Applications etc. Most of these services are composed manually. However, the complexity of manually composing web services increase exponentially with the increase in the number of available web services, the need for dynamically created/updated/discovered services and the necessity for higher amount of data bindings and type mappings in longer compositions. Therefore, current highly manual web service composition techniques are far from being the answer to web service composition problem. Automatic web service composition methods are recent research efforts to tackle the issues with manual techniques. Broadly, these methods fall into two groups: (i) workflow based methods and (ii) methods using AI planning. This thesis investigates the application of AI planning techniques to the web service composition problem and in particular, it proposes the use of the abductive event calculus in this domain. Web service compositions are defined as templates using OWL-S (&quot / OWL for Services&quot / ). These generic composition definitions are converted to Prolog language as axioms for the abductive event calculus planner and solutions found by the planner constitute the specific result plans for the generic composition plan. In this thesis it is shown that abductive planning capabilities of the event calculus can be used to generate the web service composition plans that realize the generic procedure.

In recent years, web services have become an emerging technology for communication and integration between applications in many areas such as business to business (B2B) or business to commerce (B2C). In this growing technology, it is hard to compose web services manually because of the increasing number and compexity of web services. Therefore, automation of this composition process has gained a considerable amount of popularity. Automated web service composition can be achieved either by generating the composition plan dynamically using given inputs and outputs, or by locating the correct services if an abstract process model is given. This thesis investigates the former method which is dynamicly generating the composition by using the abductive lanning capabilities of the Event Calculus. Event calculus axioms in Prolog language, are generated using the available OWL-S web service descriptions in the service repository, values given to selected inputs from ontologies used by those semantic web services and desired output types selected again from the ontologies. Abductive Theorem Prover which is the AI planner used in this thesis, generates composition plans and execution results according to the generated event calculus axioms. In this thesis, it is shown that abductive event calculus can be used for generating web services composition plans automatically, and returning the results of the generated plans by executing the necessary web services.

In this thesis, a web service composition and execution framework is presented for semantically annotated web services. A monolithic approach to automated web service composition and execution problem is chosen, which provides some benefits by separating the composition and execution phases. An AI planning method using a logical formalism called Event Calculus is chosen for the composition phase. This formalism allows one to generate a narrative of actions and temporal orderings using abductive planning techniques given a goal. Functional properties of services, namely input/output/precondition/effects(IOPE) are taken into consideration in the composition phase and non-functional properties, namely quality of service (QoS) parameters are used in selecting the most appropriate solution to be executed. The repository of OWL-S semanticWeb services are translated to Event Calculus axioms and the resulting plans found by the Abductive Event Calculus Planner are converted to graphs. These graphs can be sorted according to a score calculated using the defined quality of service parameters of the atomic services in the composition to determine the optimal solution. The selected graph is converted to an OWL-S file which is executed consequently.

Recently much research effort has been devoted to the discovery of relevant Web services. It is widely recognized that adding semantics to service description is the solution to this challenge. Web services with explicit semantic annotation are called Semantic Web Services (SWS). This research proposes an indexation and discovery architecture for SWS, together with a prototype application in the area of bioinformatics. In this approach, a SWS repository is created and maintained by crawling both ontology-oriented UDDI registries and Web sites that hosting SWS. For a given service request, the proposed system invokes the matching algorithm and a candidate set is returned with different degree of matching considered. This approach can add more flexibility to the current industry standards by offering more choices to both the service requesters and publishers. Also, the prototype developed in this research shows the value can be added by using SWS in application areas such as bioinformatics.