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Semantic configuration web services in the CAWICOMS project. (English) Zbl 1048.68749

Horrocks, Ian (ed.) et al., The semantic Web - ISWC 2002. 1st international conference, Sardinia, Italy, June 9–12, 2002. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 3-540-43760-6). Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2342, 192-205 (2002).
Summary: Product configuration is a key technology in today’s highly specialized economy. Within the scope of state-of-the-art B2B frameworks and eProcurement solutions, various initiatives take into account the provision of configuration services. However, they all are based on the idea of defining quasi-standards for many-to-many relationships between customers and vendors. When moving towards networked markets, where suppliers dynamically form supply-side consortia, more flexible approaches to B2B integration become necessary. The emerging paradigm of Web services has therefore a huge potential in business application integration. This paper presents an application scenario for configuration Web services, that is currently under development in the research project CAWICOMS. An ontology-based approach allows the advertisement of services and a configuration specific protocol defines the operational processes. However, the lack of standards for the semantic annotation of Web services is still a major shortcoming of current Web technology.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 0992.68520].

MSC:

68U99 Computing methodologies and applications
68M10 Network design and communication in computer systems

Software:

CAWICOMS; OilEd
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