Semantic service discovery is the process of locating Web Services based on the description of their functional and non-functional semantics. Both service oriented computing and the semantic Web envision intelligent agents to proactively pursue this task on behalf of their clients. Service discovery can be performed in different ways depending on the service description framework, on means of service selection,...
One of the striking advantages of Web Service technology is the fairly simple aggregation of complex services out of a library of other composite or atomic services. The same is expected to hold for the domain of Semantic Web Services such as those specified in WSMO or OWL-S. The composition of complex services at design time is a well-understood principle which is nowadays supported by classical workflow and A...