Semantic Web Service ontology construction: A reverse engineering approach

Abstract

The Semantic Web Services (SWS) technology is used to describe the Web services' capabilities and content in a computer-interpretable language and improve the quality of existing tasks, such as Web Services discovery, invocation, composition and monitoring. This paper addresses the topic of defining a knowledge based system for representing Semantic Web Service ontologies according to the WSMO-Lite conceptual model and proposes a software engineering approach to this problem using an existing Web Service (WS). The proposal uses a reverse engineering technique supported by a tool and a similarity measure starting from a Web Service Description Language (WSDL) File of an existing Web Service till modeling WSMO-Lite Ontology specified in the WSML language.