Integrating Heterogeneous Services for Semantic Mashup Construction

Abstract

Semantic mashup applications allow automating the process of services and data integration to create a composite application with a new user interface. Nevertheless, existing mashup applications need to improve the matching methods for discovering semantic services. Moreover, they have to create or modify workflows in mashup applications without the assistance of the original developers. Automating the combination of user interfaces is another challenge in the context of semantic mashups construction. In this chapter, the authors propose an approach that allows automating the combination of data, services, and user interfaces to provide a composite application with an enhanced user interface. The construction of the semantic mashup application is based on the use of domain ontology, a matching tool, and a collection of patterns. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of this proposal, the authors present a use case to construct a semantic mashup application for a travel agency.