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Semantic Web Service Search: A Brief Survey

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Scalable means for the search of relevant web services are essential for the development of intelligent service-based applications in the future Internet. Key idea of semantic web services is to enable such applications to perform a high-precision search and automated composition of services based on formal ontology-based representations of service semantics. In this paper, we briefly survey the state of the art of semantic web service search.

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  1. The paper contains revised parts from [25–28].

  2. OWL2: www.w3.org/TR/owl2-overview/.

  3. SWRL: www.w3.org/Submission/SWRL/.

  4. http://projects.semwebcentral.org/projects/owls-tc/.

  5. http://projects.semwebcentral.org/projects/sawsdl-tc.

  6. http://projects.semwebcentral.org/projects/hrests-tc/.

  7. https://jxta.kenai.com/.

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Acknowledgments

This work is partially supported by the Commission of the European Union within the CREMA H2020-RIA project (Grant Agreement No. 637066), and the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) within the project INVERSIV under Grant 01IW14004.

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    Matthias Klusch & Patrick Kapahnke

  2. TU Wien, Distributed Systems Group, Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1, 1040, Wien, Austria

    Stefan Schulte

  3. IBM Research, Smarter Cities Technology Center, Dublin, Ireland

    Freddy Lecue

  4. Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Binzmuehlestrasse 14, 8050, Zurich, Switzerland

    Abraham Bernstein

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Klusch, M., Kapahnke, P., Schulte, S. et al. Semantic Web Service Search: A Brief Survey. Künstl Intell 30, 139–147 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-015-0415-7

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