Authors:
Andrea Zisman
1
;
George Spanoudakis
1
and
James Dooley
2
Affiliations:
1
City University London, United Kingdom
;
2
University of Essex, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Service Discovery, Structural, Behavioural, Constraints.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Communication and Software Infrastructure
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Service-Oriented Computing
;
Services
Abstract:
To support the discovery of services during development and execution time of service-based systems, it is necessary to have ways of expressing the characteristics of the services to be discovered and the applications that will use them. In this paper, we present SerDiQueL, an XML-based query language that allows for the description of service discovery queries expressing structural, behavioural, quality, and contextual characteristics of services to be discovered. The language supports the identification of services during both development and execution of service-based systems and is supported by prototyped query processors performing similarity analysis between services and queries.