Abstract The Web Service Modeling Language (WSML) is a language for the specification of
different aspects of Semantic Web Services. It provides a formal language for the Web …

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 …

A significant challenge in business process automation involves bridging the gap between
business process representations and Web service technologies that implement business …

Hyperlinks and forms let humans navigate with ease through websites they have never seen
before. In contrast, automated agents can only perform preprogrammed actions on Web …

Mobile devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones are in
widespread use already today and converging to mobile smart phones. They enable users …

One of my favorite metaphors about life is the one that compares it to an ever more
challenging expedition. According to this metaphor each challenge or task in our life is a …

Semantic Web is a succession of the current world wide web in which all the contents,
resources and services over the web will have well-defined meanings. Due to this well …

Resource discovery is a key issue for Grid systems in which applications are composed of
hardware and software resources that need to be located. Classical approaches to Grid …

Semantic Web Services (SWS) purports to extend traditional Web services with semantic
descriptions-leading to services that are machine processable and interpretable. To date …

Abstract We introduce the Web Service Modeling Language WSML which provides a formal
syntax and semantics for the Web Service Modeling Ontology WSMO. WSML is based on …