TY - GEN
T1 - Describing semantic web services
T2 - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2007
AU - Kim, Il Woong
AU - Lee, Kyong Ho
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - As a de facto standard, OWL-S enables the semantic description of Web services, resulting in the automated discovery, selection, and composition of Web services. However, the complexity of the OWL-S grammar makes it difficult to construct an OWL-S ontology manually. This paper presents an efficient method for generating OWL-S ontologies from UML diagrams, which are widely used for software design and development. The proposed method uses a class diagram to represent a domain ontology and sequence or activity diagrams to represent the behavior of a business process. It also uses UML profiles to support various features of OWL-S. Finally, an XMI file extracted from UML diagrams is transformed into an OWL-S ontology via an XSLT script. Experimental results with a large volume of UML diagrams show that the proposed method deals with the control flow of complex processes and is superior to previous methods.
AB - As a de facto standard, OWL-S enables the semantic description of Web services, resulting in the automated discovery, selection, and composition of Web services. However, the complexity of the OWL-S grammar makes it difficult to construct an OWL-S ontology manually. This paper presents an efficient method for generating OWL-S ontologies from UML diagrams, which are widely used for software design and development. The proposed method uses a class diagram to represent a domain ontology and sequence or activity diagrams to represent the behavior of a business process. It also uses UML profiles to support various features of OWL-S. Finally, an XMI file extracted from UML diagrams is transformed into an OWL-S ontology via an XSLT script. Experimental results with a large volume of UML diagrams show that the proposed method deals with the control flow of complex processes and is superior to previous methods.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICWS.2007.73
DO - 10.1109/ICWS.2007.73
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:46849108522
SN - 0769529240
SN - 9780769529240
T3 - Proceedings - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2007
SP - 529
EP - 536
BT - Proceedings - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2007
Y2 - 9 July 2007 through 13 July 2007
ER -