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Table of Contents: Table of Contents


Semantic Web Services: Semantic Web Services Michal Zaremba


Semantic Web -The Vision: Static 500 million users more than 3 billion pages WWW URI, HTML, HTTP Semantic Web -The Vision Syntax Semantics Dynamic


Semantic Web -The Vision: WWW URI, HTML, HTTP Serious Problems in information finding, information extracting, information representing, information interpreting and and information maintaining. Semantic Web RDF, RDF(S), OWL Static Semantic Web -The Vision Syntax Semantics Dynamic


Semantic Web -The Vision: WWW URI, HTML, HTTP Bringing the computer back as a device for computation Semantic Web RDF, RDF(S), OWL Dynamic Web Services UDDI, WSDL, SOAP Static Semantic Web -The Vision Syntax Semantics


Semantic Web -The Vision: WWW URI, HTML, HTTP Bringing the web to its full potential Semantic Web RDF, RDF(S), OWL Dynamic Web Services UDDI, WSDL, SOAP Static Intelligent Web Services Semantic Web -The Vision Syntax Semantics


Ontology Definition : Ontology Definition formal, explicit specification of a shared conceptualization


Ontology Example: Ontology Example Concept conceptual entity of the domain Property attribte describing a concept Relation relationship between concepts or properties Axiom coherent description between Concepts / Properties / Relations via logical expressions Person Student Professor Lecture isA – hierarchy (taxonomy) name email matr.-nr. research field topic lecture nr. attends holds holds(Professor, Lecture) :- Lecture.topic € Professor.researchField


Ontology Languages : Ontology Languages Requirements: 'expressivity' knowledge representation ontology theory support 'reasoning support' sound (unambiguous, decidable) support reasoners / inference engines Semantic Web languages: web compatibility Existing W3C Recommendations: XML, RDF, OWL


“Semantic Web Language Layer Cake”: 'Semantic Web Language Layer Cake'


Web Services: Web Services Web Services: [Stencil Group] loosely coupled, reusable components encapsulate discrete functionality distributed programmatically accessible over standard internet protocols add new level of functionality on top of the current web


Web Services Problems: Web Services Problems


Web Services Problems: Web Services Problems


Lack of SWS standards: Lack of SWS standards Current technology does not allow realization of any of the parts of the Web Services’ usage process: Only syntactical standards available Lack of fully developed markup languages Lack of marked up content and services Lack of semantically enhanced repositories Lack of frameworks that facilitate discovery, composition and execution Lack of tools and platforms that allow to semantically enrich current Web content


Semantic Web Services: Semantic Web Services Define exhaustive description frameworks for describing Web Services and related aspects (Web Service Description Ontologies) Support ontologies as underlying data model to allow machine supported data interpretation (Semantic Web aspect) Define semantically driven technologies for automation of the Web Service usage process (Web Service aspect)


Semantic Web Services (2): Semantic Web Services (2) Usage Process: Publication: Make available the description of the capability of a service Discovery: Locate different services suitable for a given task Selection: Choose the most appropriate services among the available ones Composition: Combine services to achieve a goal Mediation: Solve mismatches (data, protocol, process) among the combined Execution: Invoke services following programmatic conventions


Semantic Web Services (3): Semantic Web Services (3) Usage Process – execution support Monitoring: Control the execution process Compensation: Provide transactional support and undo or mitigate unwanted effects Replacement: Facilitate the substitution of services by equivalent ones Auditing: Verify that service execution occurred in the expected way


Conclusion: Semantic Web Services = Semantic Web Technology + Web Service Technology Conclusion


Web Service Modelling Ontology(WSMO): Web Service Modelling Ontology (WSMO) Adrian Mocan


Features : Features WSMO is a complete conceptual model for Semantic Web Services and related aspects Identifies four main elements: Web Services, Goals, Ontologies, and Mediators


Overview: Overview WSMO Working Groups WSMO Design Principles WSMO Top Level Notions Ontologies Goals Web Services Mediators Basic Notions of WSML Using WSMO to address Web Services problems Discovery Composition Grounding


WSMO Working Groups: WSMO Working Groups A Conceptual Model for SWS A Formal Language for WSMO A Rule-based Language for SWS Execution Environment for WSMO


WSMO Design Principles: Strong Decoupling andamp; Strong Mediation autonomous components with mediators for interoperability Interface vs. Implementation distinguish interface (= description) from implementation (=program) Peer to Peer interaction between equal partners (in terms of control) Execution Semantics reference implementation (WSMX) WSMO Design Principles


WSMO Top Level Notions: WSMO Top Level Notions Objectives that a client may have when consulting a Web Service Provide the formally specified terminology of the information used by all other components Semantic description of Web Services: Capability (functional) Interfaces (usage) Connectors between components with mediation facilities for handling heterogeneities


Non-Functional Properties: Non-Functional Properties Every WSMO elements is described by properties that contain relevant, non-functional aspects of the item Used for management and element overall description Core Properties: Dublin Core Metadata Element Set plus version (evolution support) W3C-recommendations for description type Web Service Specific Properties: Quality aspects and other non-functional information of Web Services Used for Service Selection


Non-Functional Properties: Non-Functional Properties ontology andlt;http://www.wsmo.org/2004/d3/d3.2/v0.1/20040628/dt.wsmlandgt; nonFunctionalProperties dc:title 'Date and Time Ontology' dc:creator 'DERI International' dc:subject 'Date', 'Time', 'Date and Time Algebra' dc:description 'generic representation of data and time including basic algebra' dc:publisher 'DERI International' dc:contributor 'Holger Lausen', 'Axel Polleres', 'Ruben Lara' dc:date 2004-06-28 dc:type http://www.wsmo.org/2004/d2/v0.3/20040329/#ontos dc:format 'text/plain' dc:language 'en-US' dc:relation andlt;http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/andgt; dc:coverage 'World' dc:rights andlt;http://www.deri.org/privacy.htmlandgt; version 1.21


WSMO Ontologies: WSMO Ontologies Provide the formally specified terminology of the information used by all other components Semantic description of Web Services: Capability (functional) Interfaces (usage) Objectives that a client may have when consulting a Web Service Connectors between components with mediation facilities for handling heterogeneities


Ontology Specification: Non functional properties Imported Ontologies Importing existing ontologies where no heterogeneities arise Used mediators: OO Mediators (ontology import with terminology mismatch handling) ‘Standard’ Ontology Notions: Concepts set of concepts that belong to the ontology Attributes set of attributes that belong to a concept Relations: define interrelations between several concepts Functions: special type of relation (unary range = return value) Instances: set of instances that belong to the represented ontology Axioms axiomatic expressions in ontology (logical statement) Ontology Specification


WSMO Goals : WSMO Goals Provide the formally specified terminology of the information used by all other components Semantic description of Web Services: Capability (functional) Interfaces (usage) Objectives that a client may have when consulting a Web Service Connectors between components with mediation facilities for handling heterogeneities


Goals: Goals De-coupling of Request and Service Goal-driven Approach, derived from AI rational agent approach Requester formulates objective independent / without regard to services for resolution ‘Intelligent’ mechanisms detect suitable services for solving the Goal Allows re-use of Services for different purposes Usage of Goals within Semantic Web Services A Requester, that is an agent (human or machine), defines a Goal to be resolved Web Service Discovery detects suitable Web Services for solving the Goal automatically Goal Resolution Management is realized in implementations


Goal Specification: Goal Specification Non functional properties Imported Ontologies Used mediators OO Mediators: - import ontologies with integration GG Mediators: - allow goal definition by reusing an already existing goal - allow specification of Goal Ontologies Post-conditions - the state of the information space that is desired. The result expected from execution a Web Service Expressed as an axiom (unambiguous, based on ontology) Effects - the state of the world that is desired. Expected changes in the world that should hold after a service execution Expressed as an axiom (unambiguous, based on ontology)


WSMO Web Services: WSMO Web Services Provide the formally specified terminology of the information used by all other components Semantic description of Web Services: Capability (functional) Interfaces (usage) Objectives that a client may have when consulting a Web Service Connectors between components with mediation facilities for handling heterogeneities


WSMO Web Service Description : WSMO Web Service Description Web Service Implementation (not of interest in Web Service Description) Choreography --- Interfaces --- Orchestration Capability Functional description Advertise of Web Service Support for WS Discovery Interaction Interface for consuming WS Messages External Visible Behavior Grounding Realization of WS by using other WS Functional decomposition WS Composition Non-functional Properties Core + WS-specific Complete item description Quality aspects WS Management


Web Service specific Properties: Web Service specific Properties Non-functional information of Web Services: Accuracy Robustness Availability Scalability Financial Security Network-related QoS Transactional Performance Trust Reliability


Capability Specification: Capability Specification Non functional properties Imported Ontologies Used mediators OO Mediator: importing ontologies as terminology definition WG Mediator: link to a Goal that is solved by the Web Service Pre-conditions What a web service expects (conditions over the input) Assumptions Conditions on the state of the world before the WS execution Post-conditions The result of the WS in relation to the input, and conditions on it Effects Conditions on the state of the world after the WS execution (i.e. changes in the state of the world)


Choreography in WSMO : Choreography in WSMO 'Choreography describes the behavior of the service from a user point of view' External Visible Behavior those aspects of the workflow of a Web Service where User Interaction is required described by process / workflow constructs Communication Structure messages sent and received their order (messages are related to activities)


Choreography in WSMO (2): Choreography in WSMO (2) Grounding Concrete communication technology for interaction Choreography related errors (e.g. input wrong, message timeout, etc.) Formal Model Allow operations / mediation on Choreographies Formal Basis: Abstract State Machines (ASM)


WSMO Orchestration: '…how the overall functionality of the service is achieved by the cooperation of other WSMO service providers ' Orchestration Language Decomposition of Web Service functionality Control structure for aggregation of Web Services Web Service Composition Combine Web Services into higher-level functionality Resolve mismatches occurring between composed Web Services Proxy Technology Placeholders for used Web Services Facility for applying the Choreography of used Web Services WSMO Orchestration


WSMO Orchestration Overview: WSMO Orchestration Overview Decomposition of the Web Service functionality into sub-functionalities Proxies as placeholders for used Web Services Control Structure for aggregation of other Web Services


Choreography & Orchestration Example: VTA example: WSMO Choreography models all visible interactions of the service (Orchestration shows how all the interaction are related) Choreography andamp; Orchestration Example


WSMO Mediators: WSMO Mediators Provide the formally specified terminology of the information used by all other components Semantic description of Web Services: Capability (functional) Interfaces (usage) Objectives that a client may have when consulting a Web Service Connectors between components with mediation facilities for handling heterogeneities


Mediation : Mediation Heterogeneity … Mismatches on structural / semantic / conceptual level Occur between different components that shall interoperate Especially in distributed andamp; open environments like the Internet Concept of Mediation (Wiederhold, 94): Mediators as components that resolve mismatches Declarative Approach: Semantic description of resources ‘Intelligent’ mechanisms that resolve mismatches independent of content Mediation cannot be fully automated (integration decision) Levels of Mediation within Semantic Web Services: Data Level: mediate heterogeneous Data Sources Process/Protocol Level: mediate heterogeneous Business Processes/Communication Patterns


WSMO Mediators Overview: WSMO Mediators Overview


Mediator Structure: Mediator Structure


GG Mediators: GG Mediators Aim: Support specification of Goals by re-using existing Goals Allow definition of Goal Ontologies (collection of pre-defined Goals) Terminology mismatches handled by OO Mediators Example: Goal Refinement GG Mediator Mediation Service Source Goal 'Buy a ticket' Target Goal 'Buy a Train Ticket'


WG & WW Mediators: WG andamp; WW Mediators WG Mediators: link a Web Service to a Goal and resolve occurring mismatches match Web Services and Goals that do not match a priori handle terminology mismatches between Web Services and Goals broader range of Goals solvable by a Web Service WW Mediators: enable interoperability of heterogeneous Web Services handle terminology mismatches between Web Services support automated collaboration between Web Services Data Mediation for resolving terminology mismatches (OO Mediators) Process/Protocol Mediation for establishing valid multi-party collaborations and making Business Processes interoperable


Web Services Modelling Language (WSML): Web Services Modelling Language (WSML) Adrian Mocan


WSML - Web Service Modeling Language: WSML - Web Service Modeling Language WSML provides a formal grounding for the conceptual elements of WSMO, based on: Description Logics Rule Languages First-Order Logic


Rationale of WSML: Rationale of WSML Provide a Web Service Modeling Language based on the WSMO conceptual model Concrete syntax Semantics Provide a Rule Language for the Semantic Web Many current Semantic Web languages have undesirable computational properties unintuitive conceptual modeling features inappropriate language layering RDFS/OWL OWL Lite/DL/Full OWL/SWRL


Variants of WSML: Variants of WSML


WSML Conceptual Syntax for Ontologies: WSML Conceptual Syntax for Ontologies Ontologies Namespaces Imported Ontologies Used Mediators Concepts Relations Functions Special kind of relation Instances Explicitly defined in ontology Retrieved from external instance store Axioms Extra-Logical declarations Logical Declarations Non-Functional Properties


WSML Logical Expressions: WSML Logical Expressions Frame- and first-order-based concrete syntax (BNF Grammar in D2, Appendix B) Elements: Function symbols (e.g. f()) Molecules (e.g. Human subClassOf Animal, John memberOf Human, John[name hasValue ‘John Smith’]). Predicates (e.g. distance(to:?x, from:?y, distance:?z)) Logical connectives (or, and, not, implies, equivalent, impliedBy, forall, exists) Example: ?x memberOf Human equivalent ?x memberOf Animal and ?x memberOf LegalAgent.


WSML Goals and Web Services: WSML Goals and Web Services Goal / Web Service assumptions effects pre-conditions post-conditions are defined through WSML logical expressions Logical expressions are based on ontologies


WSML-Flight - Example: WSML-Flight - Example


WSML Summary: WSML Summary Formal languages for WSML Variants: WSML-Core WSML-Flight WSML-Rule WSML-DL WSML-Full Modular, Frame-based Conceptual syntax vs. Logical Expressions Syntaxes: Human readable XML OWL/RDF


Using WSMO to address Web Services problems: Using WSMO to address Web Services problems Adrian Mocan


WSMO Discovery - Foundations: WSMO Discovery - Foundations 'Web service' and 'service' have to be distinguished: Web service: a computational entity able to perform many services, e.g. Amazon Web service Service: a concrete invocation of a Web service, e.g. buying „Silver Bullet' for EUR 37,40 with free delivery within 2-3 days. Heuristic Classifications (William J. Clancey, 1985) Abstraction Process of translating concrete descriptions into features usable for classification, e.g. a concrete body temperature into „lower fever' Matching Inferring potential classification or solutions from extracted features Refinement Inferring final diagnoses; it may include the acquisition of new features describing the given case


WSMO Discovery: WSMO Discovery


WSMO Discovery: WSMO Discovery Abstracting goals from concrete user desire, e.g.: „Buying a train ticket from Innsbruck to Karlsruhe for today' into 'buying train tickets in Europe'.


WSMO Discovery: WSMO Discovery Abstracting goals from concrete user desire, e.g.: „Buying a train ticket from Innsbruck to Karlsruhe for today' into 'buying train tickets in Europe'. Matching between abstract goals and abstract services, e.g. 'train tickets in Europe' and 'transportation in Europe'


WSMO Discovery: WSMO Discovery Abstracting goals from concrete user desire, e.g.: „Buying a train ticket from Innsbruck to Karlsruhe for today' into 'buying train tickets in Europe'. Matching between abstract goals and abstract services, e.g. 'train tickets in Europe' and 'transportation in Europe' Based on the use of an Web service to discover the actual service. Requires strong mediation (protocol, process and data)


WSMO Discovery: WSMO Discovery Abstracting goals from concrete user desire, e.g.: „Buying a train ticket from Innsbruck to Karlsruhe for today' into 'buying train tickets in Europe'. Matching between abstract goals and abstract services, e.g. 'train tickets in Europe' and 'transportation in Europe' Based on the use of an Web service to discover the actual service. Requires strong mediation (protocol, process and data)


Description and Discovery: Description and Discovery Capability descriptions - Levels of abstraction andamp; possible accuracy What? (Syntactically) What? (Semantic „Light') What andamp; When? (Semantic „Heavy')  Concrete capability  Abstract capability  Syntactic capability complete andamp; perhaps correct complete andamp; correct (if user input known andamp; interaction) perhaps complete andamp; perhaps correct


Slide65: 'Automated selection, composition, and interoperation of [existing] Web services to perform some complex task, given a high-level description of an objective.' Web services are described at two abstraction levels: functional (or capability) level the focus is on the service inputs, outputs, preconditions, and effects WSMO capability model process level the Web service is defined by an activity flow or an interaction pattern WSMO interface model Web Service Composition


Functional-level vs. process-level- Composition task -: Functional-level vs. process-level - Composition task - Functional-level composition select a set of services that, combined in a suitable way, are able to match a given objective: Given the requirements for a trip (destination, duration, budget…), find the services that are necessary to prepare the trip (Deutsche Bahnhof, Hotels@Karlsruhe, Hertz…) Process-level composition define an interaction pattern with the selected services, so that an executable implementation of the composition is obtained: Find the correct order for the interactions with the selected services (e.g., interactions with train and hotel have to be interleaved to guarantee consistency of arrival and departure dates)


Service Grounding – WSMO: Service Grounding – WSMO Deal with existing WSDL services Map from XML Schema used in WSDL to WSMO Use existing tools to mediate from WSMO ontology to WSMO ontology Also investigating Using XSLT to map from XML-S of WSDL directly to WSML/XML of ontology used by WSMO description Ultimate aim to have semantic description of interface grounding in the choreography


Service Grounding – WSMO: Service Grounding – WSMO Amazon WS WSDL XML Schema WSMO WS Interface Book Ontology WSMO ontology from XML Schema Mapping Rules Create WSMO description 1 used by Map XML schema to WSMO conceptual model 2 Create Mapping Rules 3 Use mapping rules from WSMO choreography 4


Conclusion: How WSMO Addresses WS problems: Conclusion: How WSMO Addresses WS problems Discovery Provide formal representation of capabilities and goal Conceptual model for service discovery Different levels to Web Service discovery Composition Provide formal representation of capabilities and choreographies Invocation Support any type of WS invocation mechanism Clear separation between WS description and implementation Guaranteeing Security and Policies No explicit policy and security specification yet Proposed solution will interoperate with WS standards Mediation and Interoperation Mediators as a key conceptual element Mediation mechanism not dictated (Multiple) formal choreographies + mediation enabled interoperation The solutions are envisioned maintaining a strong relation with existing WS standards


Web Service Execution Environment(WSMX): Web Service Execution Environment (WSMX) Michal Zaremba


Overview: Overview WSMX Overview Components and System Architecture Interrelationship of components Execution semantics Component interfaces Data flow between components


WSMX Introduction: WSMX Introduction WSMX is a software framework that allows runtime binding of service requesters and service providers WSMX interprets service requester goal to Discover matching services Select the service that best fits Provide data mediation if required Make the service invocation WSMX is based on the conceptual model provided by WSMO WSMX has a formal execution semantics WSMX has service oriented and event-based architecture based on microkernel design using such enterprise technologies as J2EE, Hibernate, Spring, JMX, etc.


WSMX Design Principles: WSMX Design Principles Strong Decoupling andamp; Strong Mediation autonomous components with mediators for interoperability Interface vs. Implementation distinguish interface (= description) from implementation (=program) Peer to Peer interaction between equal partners (in terms of control) WSMO Design Principles == WSMX Design Principles == SOA Design Principles


Scope of WSMX Development: Scope of WSMX Development Reference implementation for WSMO Complete architecture for SWS discovery, mediation, selection and invocation Example of implemented functionality - achieving a user-specified goal by invoking WS described with the semantic markup


System Architecture: System Architecture


Dynamic Execution Semantics: Dynamic Execution Semantics WSMX consists of loosely coupled components Components might be dynamically plug-in or plug-out Execution Semantics - invocation order of components Event-based implementation New execution semantics can appear in the future including new components We need a flexible way to create new execution semantics and deploy them in the system Ultimate goal is to execute workflow definition describing interactions between system components


Define “Business” Process: Define 'Business' Process


Event-based Implementation: Event-based Implementation


System Architecture: System Architecture


System Architecture: System Architecture Request to discover Web services. May be sent to adapter or adapter may extract from backend app.


System Architecture: System Architecture Goal expressed in WSML sent to WSMX System Interface


System Architecture: System Architecture Comm Manager component implements the interface to receive WSML goals


System Architecture: System Architecture Comm Manager tells core Goal has been recieved


System Architecture: System Architecture Choreography wrapper Picks up event for Choreography component


System Architecture: System Architecture A new choreography Instance is created


System Architecture: System Architecture Core is notified that choreography instance has been created.


System Architecture: System Architecture Parser wrapper picks up event for Parser component


System Architecture: System Architecture WSML goal is parsed to internal format


System Architecture: System Architecture


System Architecture: System Architecture


System Architecture: System Architecture Discovery is invoked for parsed goal


System Architecture: System Architecture


System Architecture: System Architecture


System Architecture: System Architecture Discovery component requires data mediation.


System Architecture: System Architecture


System Architecture: System Architecture


System Architecture: System Architecture After data mediation, discovery component completes its task.


System Architecture: System Architecture


System Architecture: System Architecture


System Architecture: System Architecture After discovery, the choreography instance for goal requester is checked for next step in interaction.


System Architecture: System Architecture


System Architecture: System Architecture


System Architecture: System Architecture Next step in choreography is to return set of discovered Web services to goal requester


System Architecture: System Architecture Set of Web Service descriptions expressed in WSML sent to appropriate adapter


System Architecture: System Architecture Set of Web Service descriptions expressed in requester’s own format returned to goal requester


WSMX Summary: WSMX Summary Event based component architecture Conceptual model is WSMO End to end functionality for executing SWS Has a formal execution semantics Open source code base at sourceforge Developers welcome


WSMX Useful Links: WSMX Useful Links Home http://www.wsmx.org/ Overview http://www.wsmo.org/2004/d13/d13.0/v0.1/ Architecture http://www.wsmo.org/2004/d13/d13.4/v0.2/ Mediation http://www.wsmo.org/2004/d13/d13.3/v0.2/ Execution Semantics http://www.wsmo.org/2004/d13/d13.2/v0.1/ Open source code base at SourceForge https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsmx


IRS-III: A framework and platform for Semantic Web Services: IRS-III: A framework and platform for Semantic Web Services Liliana Cabral


IRS-III: IRS-III The Internet Reasoning Service is an infrastructure for publishing, locating, executing and composing Semantic Web Services, organized according to the WSMO conceptual model


IRS-III Framework: IRS-III Server Domain Models Web Service Descriptions + Registry of Implementors Goal Descriptions IRS Publisher S O A P IRS Publisher IRS Publisher IRS Publisher Lisp Java Java WS IRS-III Framework Mediator Descriptions


IRS-III Features: IRS-III Features Provides capability-centred service invocation Provides built-in brokering and service discovery support Publishing support for variety of platforms Java Web Services, Java, Lisp, Web Applications Enables publication of ‘standard code’ Provides clever wrappers automatically, which turn code into web services One-click publishing of web services Provides Java API for client applications Based on Soap messaging standard


IRS-III Architecture: LispWeb Server IRS-III Architecture IRS-III Server WS Publisher Registry OWL(-S) Handler OWL(-S) SOAP Handler SOAP Publishing Platforms Web Service Java Code Web Application SOAP


Publishing Platform Architecture: Publishing Platform Architecture IRS-III Publishing Platform HTTP Server SOAP Handler Service Registrar Service Invoker WS Service Registry IRS-III Server Invocation Client SOAP SOAP SOAP Web Service 1 Web Service 2 Web Service 3


IRS-III/WSMO differences: IRS-III/WSMO differences Underlying language OCML Goals have inputs and outputs IRS-III broker finds applicable web services via mediators Used mediator within WS capability Mediator source = goal Web services have inputs and outputs ‘inherited’ from goal descriptions Web service selected via assumption (in capability)


SWS in IRS III: SWS in IRS III


SWS Creation & Usage Steps: SWS Creation andamp; Usage Steps Create a goal description (e.g. book-train-goal) Add input and output roles Include role type and soap binding Create a wg-mediator description Link a goal to a Web Service Source component = goal Possibly add a mediation service Create a web service description Used-mediator of WS capability = wg-mediator above Publish Lisp function against web service description Invoke web service by ‘achieve goal’


Multiple Web Services for a Goal: Multiple Web Services for a Goal Each WS links to a Goal through the mediator in the used-mediator slot of capability Some WS may share a mediator Define a constraint for solving the Goal - a logical expression for assumption slot of WS capability logical expression format (kappa (?goal) andlt;ocml relationsandgt;) Getting the value of an input role (wsmo-role-value ?goal andlt;role-nameandgt;)


Valid Logical Expressions (relations): Valid Logical Expressions (relations) Classes are unary relations e.g. (country ?x) Slots are binary relations e.g. (is-capital-of ?x ?y) Standard relations in base (OCML toplevel) ontology: =, ==, andlt;, andgt;, member Example: (kappa (?goal) (member (wsmo-role-value ?goal 'has_source_currency) '(euro pound)))


Defining a WG-Mediator: Defining a WG-Mediator G WS WGMediator G Source Target Mediation Service passenger (person) time-date (list) time-date (univ-time) time-date (univ-time) departure (city) destination (city) time-date (list)


Defining a Mediation Service: Defining a Mediation Service Defined in the Mediator Mediation-service = Goal Web Service implements the mediation (mappings) Mediation Goal input roles are a subset of source Goal input roles Mediation Goal output is a subset of target Web Service input roles.


Goal Based Invocation: Goal Based Invocation Instantiate Goal Description Exchange-rate-goal Has-source-currency: us-dollars Has-target-currency: pound Web Service Discovery European-exchange-rate-ws Non-european-exchange-rate-ws European-bank-exchange-rate-ws Goal -andgt; WG Mediator -andgt; WS/Capability/Used-mediator Web service selection European-exchange-rate Mediate input values ‘$’ -andgt; us-dollar WS -andgt; Capability -andgt; Assumption expression Mediation Invoke selected web service European-exchange-rate Invocation


IRS-III Demo: IRS-III Demo Liliana Cabral


European Travel Scenario: European Travel Scenario


European Travel Demo : European Travel Demo


Demo - Objective: Demo - Objective Develop an application for the European Travel scenario based on SWS. The application should support a person booking a train ticket between 2 European cities at a specific time and date Create Goal, Web service and Mediator WSMO descriptions in IRS-III (european-travel-service-descriptions) for available services. Service constraints involves start and end locations and the type of traveller. Use the assumption slot to express this. Publish available lisp functions against Web Service descriptions Invoke the web services through ‘Achieve Goal’ Solution using IRS-III browser will be provided


Travel Related Knowledge Models: Travel Related Knowledge Models


Key Classes, Relations, Instances(European-Train-Travel-Application) : Key Classes, Relations, Instances (European-Train-Travel-Application) Is-in-country andlt;cityandgt; andlt;countryandgt; e.g. (is-in-country berlin germany) -andgt; true student instances: john matt michal business-person instances: liliana michael


Goals: Goals 1- Get train timetable Inputs: origin and destination cities, date Output: timetable (list) 2- Book train Inputs: passenger name, origin and destination cities, departure time-date Output: booking information (string)


Services: Services 1 service available for goal 1 No constraints 6 services available for goal 2 As a provider write the constraints applicable to the services to satisfy the goal (assumption logical expressions) 1 wg-mediator mediation-service Used to convert time in list format to time in universal format


Service constraints: Service constraints Services 2-5 Services for (origin and destination) cities in determined countries Service 4-5 Need a mediation service to map goal time-date to service time-date Services 6-7 Services for students or business people in Europe


Available Functions (1/3): Available Functions (1/3) 1- get-train-times paris london (18 4 2004) 'Timetable of trains from PARIS to LONDON on 18, 4, 2004 5:18 …23:36' 2- book-english-train-journey christoph milton-keynes london (20 33 16 15 9 2004) 'British Rail: CHRISTOPH is booked on the 476 going from MILTON-KEYNES to LONDON at 16:34, 15, SEPTEMBER 2004. The price is 179 Euros.' 3- book-french-train-journey sinuhe paris lyon (3 4 6 18 8 2004) 'SNCF: SINUHE is booked on the 593 going from PARIS to LYON at 6:12, 18, AUGUST 2004. The price is 25 Euros.'


Available Functions (2/3): Available Functions (2/3) 4- book-german-train-journey christoph berlin frankfurt 3305020023 'German Rail (Die Bahn): CHRISTOPH is booked on the 362 going from BERLIN to FRANKFURT at 14:47, 24, SEPTEMBER 2004. The price is 35 Euros.' 5- book-austrian-train-journey sinuhe vienna innsbruck 3304686609 'Austrian Rail (OBB): SINUHE is booked on the 681 going from VIENNA to INNSBRUCK at 17:43, 20, SEPTEMBER 2004. The price is 36 Euros.'


Available Functions (3/3): Available Functions (3/3) 6- book-student-european-train-journey john london nice (3 4 6 18 8 2004) 'European Student Rail Travel: JOHN is booked on the 408 going from LONDON to NICE at 6:44, 18, AUGUST 2004. The price is 86 Euros.' 7- book-business-european-train-journey liliana paris innsbruck (3 4 6 18 8 2004) 'Business Europe: LILIANA is booked on the 461 going from PARIS to INNSBRUCK at 6:12, 18, AUGUST 2004. The price is 325 Euros.' 8- mediate-time (lisp function) or JavaMediateTime/mediate (java) (9 30 17 20 9 2004) 3304686609


Using IRS-III Browser for the VTA Demo application: Using IRS-III Browser for the VTA Demo application Semantic Descriptions of: Goals Web Services Mediators Publishing Invocation


IRS-III Browser: IRS-III Browser


Creating a Goal description: Creating a Goal description


Creating a Mediator description: Creating a Mediator description


Creating a Web Service description: Creating a Web Service description


Adding a Mediator to the Web Service Capability: Adding a Mediator to the Web Service Capability


Adding a constraint to the Web Service Capability: Adding a constraint to the Web Service Capability


Creating a Goal (Mediation Service): Creating a Goal (Mediation Service)


Creating a Mediator description (Mediation Service): Creating a Mediator description (Mediation Service)


Adding a Mediator to the Web Service (Mediation Service): Adding a Mediator to the Web Service (Mediation Service)


Publishing Web Services (lisp functions): Publishing Web Services (lisp functions)


Achieving a Goal (Mediation Service): Achieving a Goal (Mediation Service)


Achieving a Goal: Achieving a Goal


IRS-III Future Work: IRS-III Future Work IRS-III Choreography definition language is being specified. Based on guarded state transitions as forward chaining rules IRS-III Orchestration is being defined. OO-mediators will have mapping rules.


IRS-III Link: IRS-III Link Webpage: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/irs/ Download available: Java API Browser/Editor


WSMO Tools: WSMO Tools Liliana Cabral


WSMO Tools(in development): WSMO Tools (in development) WSMX Server - http://sourceforge.net/projects/wsmx IRS-III API - http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/irs/ WSMO API/WSMO4J - http://wsmo4j.sourceforge.net/ Java API for WSMO / WSML WSMT – Web Services Modelling Toolkit WSMO Studio - http://www.wsmostudio.org/ (currently: SWWS Studio) Creation and editing of WSMO specifications WSML Editor Ontology Management System OMS Open for Plug-Ins for SWS tools (discovery, composer, …) WSML Validator and Parser validates WSMO specifications in WSML parsing into intermediary FOL format (every FOL compliant syntax can be derived from this) OWL Lite Reasoner for WSML-OWL variant OWL Lite Reasoner based on TRIPLE


Summary, Conclusions & Future Work: Summary, Conclusions andamp; Future Work Liliana Cabral


Conclusions : Conclusions This tutorial should enable you to: understand aims andamp; challenges within Semantic Web Services understand the objectives and features of WSMO model Semantic Web Services with WSMO correctly assess emerging technologies andamp; products for Semantic Web Services use implemented tools to create SWS


References WSMO: References WSMO The central location where WSMO work and papers can be found is WSMO Working Group: http://www.wsmo.org In regard of WSMO languages: WSML Working Group: http://www.wsml.org WSMO implementation: WSMX working group can be found at: http://www.wsmx.org WSMX open source can be found at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsmx/


References WSMO: References WSMO [WSMO Specification]: Roman, D.; Lausen, H.; Keller, U. (eds.): Web Service Modeling Ontology, WSMO Working Draft D2, final version 1.1, 10 February 2005. [WSMO Primer]: Feier, C. (ed.): WSMO Primer, WSMO Working Draft D3.1, 23 March 2005. [WSMO Choreography and Orchestration] Roman, D.; Scicluna, J.; Feier, C. :(eds.): Ontology-based Choreography and Orchestration of WSMO Services , WSMO Working Draft D14, 1 March 2005. [WSMO Use Case] Stollberg, M.; Lara, R. (ed.): WSMO Use Case Modeling and Testing, WSMO Working Drafts D3.2; D3.3.; D3.4; D3.5, final version 0.1, 17 November 2004.


References WSMO: References WSMO [Arroyo et al. 2004] Arroyo, S., Lara, R., Gomez, J. M., Berka, D., Ding, Y. and Fensel, D: 'Semantic Aspects of Web Services' in Practical Handbook of Internet Computing. Munindar P. Singh, editor. Chapman Hall and CRC Press, Baton Rouge. 2004. [Berners-Lee et al. 2001] Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila, 'The Semantic Web'. Scientific American, 284(5):34-43, 2001. Domingue, J. Cabral, L., Hakimpour, F., Sell D., and Motta, E., (2004) IRS-III: A Platform and Infrastructure for Creating WSMO-based Semantic Web Services WSMO Implementation Workshop (WIW), Frankfurt, Germany, September,2004 [Fensel, 2001] Dieter Fensel, 'Ontologies: Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce', Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001. [Gruber, 1993] Thomas R. Gruber, 'A Translation Approach to Portable Ontology Specifications', Knowledge Acquisition, 5:199-220, 1993. [Stencil Group] - www.stencilgroup.com/ideas_scope_200106wsdefined.html


References WSMX: References WSMX Adrian Mocan and Emilia Cimpian and Michal Zaremba and Christoph Bussler: Mediation in Web Service Modeling Execution Environment (WSMX), Information Integration on the Web (iiWeb2004), Sep, 2004, Toronto, Canada. Adrian Mocan: Ontology Mediation in WSMX, 1st WSMO Implementation Workshop, Sep, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany. Matthew Moran and Adrian Mocan: WSMX-An Architecture for Semantic Web Service Discovery, Mediation and Invocation, 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004), Nov, 2004, Hiroshima, Japan. Matthew Moran and Michal Zaremba and Adrian Mocan and Christoph Bussler: Using WSMX to bind Requester andamp; Provider at Runtime when Executing Semantic Web Services, 1st WSMO Implementation Workshop, Sep, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany. Matthew Moran and Adrian Mocan: WSMX - An Architecture for Semantic Web Service Discovery, Mediation and Invocation, Third International Semantic Web Services Conference, ISWC'04, 2004, Hiroshima, Japan. Matthew Moran and Michal Zaremba: WSMX - An Architecture for Dynamic Composition, Mediation and Invocation of Semantic Web Services, IADIS International WWW/Internet Conference, 2004, Madrid. Michal Zaremba and Matthew Moran: Enabling Execution of Semantic Web Services: WSMX Core Platform, Proceedings of the WIW 2004 Workshop on WSMO Implementations, Jul, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany. Michal Zaremba, Armin Haller, Maciej Zaremba, and Matthew Moran : WSMX-Infrastructure for Execution of Semantic Web Services, ISWC 2004: Demo Papers, Nov, 2004, Hiroshima, Japan.


References IRS-III: References IRS-III J. Domingue, L. Cabral, F. Hakimpour,D. Sell and E. Motta: IRS-III: A Platform and Infrastructure for Creating WSMO-based Semantic Web Services. Proceedings of the Workshop on WSMO Implementations (WIW 2004) Frankfurt, Germany, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, online http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-113/paper3.pdf. J. Domingue and S. Galizia: Towards a Choreography for IRS-III.Proceedings of the Workshop on WSMO Implementations (WIW 2004) Frankfurt, Germany, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, online http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-113/paper7.pdf. Cabral, L., Domingue, J., Motta, E., Payne, T. and Hakimpour, F. (2004).Approaches to Semantic Web Services: An Overview and Comparisons. In proceedings of the First European Semantic Web Symposium (ESWS2004), Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Motta, E., Domingue, J., Cabral, L. and Gaspari, M. (2003) IRS-II: A Framework and Infrastructure for Semantic Web Services. In proceedings of the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003) 20-23 October 2003, Sundial Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA.


Acknowledgements: Acknowledgements The WSMO work is funded by the European Commission under the projects DIP, Knowledge Web, SEKT, SWWS, AKT and Esperonto; by Science Foundation Ireland under the DERI-Lion project; and by the Vienna city government under the CoOperate program.