Fully automated web services discovery and composition through concept covering and concept abduction

International Journal of Web Services Research

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 85-112

  Ragone, Azzurra ^a   Di Noia, Tommaso ^a   Di Sciascio, Eugenio ^a   Donini, Francesco M ^b   Colucci, Simona ^a   Colasuonno, Francesco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Concept abduction; Concept covering; Description logics; Knowledge representation; OWL S; Semantic based discovery

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA DESCRIPTION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; WEB CRAWLER; WEBSITES;

AUTOMATED WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION; CONCEPT ABDUCTION; CONCEPT COVERING; DESCRIPTION LOGIC; OWL-S; SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGY; TRACTABLE ALGORITHMS; WEB SERVICES DISCOVERY;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 34748884069     PISSN: 15457362     EISSN: 15465004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jwsr.2007070105     Document Type: Article

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