USDL: A service-semantics description language for automatic service discovery and composition

International Journal of Web Services Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-48

  Kona, Srividya ^a   Bansal, Ajay ^a   Simon, Luke ^a   Mallya, Ajay ^a   Gupta, Gopal ^a   Hite, Thomas D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b Metallect Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Constraint programming; Logic programming; Semantic web services; Web service composition; Web service discovery

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIRDS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; ONTOLOGY; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SEMANTIC WEB; SOFTWARE AGENTS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WEB CRAWLER; WEBSITES;

AUTOMATED SERVICE COMPOSITION; AUTOMATIC SERVICE DISCOVERIES; CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING; DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; SERVICE ORIENTED COMPUTING; WEB ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE; WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION; WEB SERVICE DISCOVERY;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 70349098848     PISSN: 15457362     EISSN: 15465004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jwsr.2009010102     Document Type: Article

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