TY - BOOK AU - Fensel,Dieter AU - Lausen,Holger AU - Bruijn,Jos AU - Stollberg,Michael AU - Roman,Dumitru AU - Polleres,Axel AU - Domingue,John ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Enabling Semantic Web Services: The Web Service Modeling Ontology SN - 9783540345206 AV - QA76.76.A65 U1 - 005.7 23 PY - 2007/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Computer science KW - Software engineering KW - Information storage and retrieval systems KW - Information systems KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Electronic commerce KW - Management information systems KW - Computer Science KW - Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet) KW - Business Information Systems KW - Electronic Commerce/e-business KW - Information Storage and Retrieval KW - Software Engineering KW - Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) N1 - Foundations -- The World Wide Web -- The Semantic Web -- Web Services -- The Web Service Modeling Ontology -- to WSMO -- The Concepts of WSMO -- WSML — a Language for WSMO -- Related Work in the Area of Semantic Web Service Frameworks -- Tools and Applications -- Semantic Web Service Usage Tasks in WSMO -- Tools -- Applications of WSMO -- Conclusion and Outlook N2 - Service-oriented computing has become one of the predominant factors in current IT research and development. Web services seem to be the middleware solution of the future for highly interoperable distributed software solutions. In parallel, research on the Semantic Web provides the results required to exploit distributed machine-processable data. To combine these two research lines into industrial-strength applications, a number of research projects have been set up by organizations like W3C and the EU. Dieter Fensel and his coauthors deliver a profound introduction into one of the most promising approaches – the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO). After a brief presentation of the underlying basic technologies and standards of the World Wide Web, the Semantic Web, and Web Services, they detail all the elements of WSMO from basic concepts to possible applications in e-commerce, e-government and e-banking, and they also describe its relation to other approaches like OWL-S or WSDL-S. While many of the related technologies and standards are still under development, this book already offers both a broad conceptual introduction and lots of pointers to future application scenarios for researchers in academia and industry as well as for developers of distributed Web applications UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34520-6 ER -