A Reverse Engineering Approach for the Web Service Modeling Ontology Specifications

Abstract

Semantic Web services (SWS) are the result of the evolution of the syntactic definition of Web services and the semantic Web. Several solutions were proposed for the specification of the semantic web services such as OWL-S (ontology Web language for services) and WSMO (Web service modeling ontology). However, these technologies require a human user intervention to select and choose the required services. We propose an approach to create service ontology with WSMO specifications starting from WSDL (Web service language description) by using the reverse engineering techniques. Reverse engineering aims to extract several types of information of existing software and to employ them for comprehension, renovation as well as maintenance of the system.