An active ontology-based blackboard architecture for Web service interoperability

TitleAn active ontology-based blackboard architecture for Web service interoperability
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2005
AuthorsLepouras G, Vassilakis C, Sotiropoulou A, Theotokis D, Katifori A
Conference Name2005 International Conference on Services Systems and Services Management, Proceedings of ICSSSM'05
Date Published6
KeywordsActive blackboard architecture, Computer architecture, Electronic commerce, Interoperability, Ontology-based architecture, Web service synthesis, World Wide Web
AbstractWeb services are functional, independent components that can be called over the web to perform a task. Web services are provided by organizations to enable others to perform tasks the organization offers online. However, with an ever increasing number of web services, finding the web service that performs a certain task is not always easy. Furthermore, adopting an end-user point of view what is needed is the actual result and not the service per se. It is often the case that more than one service have to be combined to produce the anticipated outcome, e.g. in the case of life-events. To this end, we propose an active, ontology-based blackboard architecture that aims at tackling the problems inherent in dynamic synthesis of composite web services and at facilitating user interaction with complex e-government transactions. Β© 2005 IEEE.
URLhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33745256434&partnerID=40&md5=d1cd6446d2f3bc9ed098036d2f2bd384
DOI10.1109/ICSSSM.2005.1499537