Semantics-based discovery, selection and mediation for presentation-oriented mashups

Abstract

Mashups have become a prominent approach for building interactive web applications from distributed web resources. While the number of web APIs and services is growing, it becomes increasingly hard to find the right "ingredients" and to resolve incompatibilities between them. Semantics have been successfully applied in the web service domain to support the automatic composition of applications. Based on this idea, our approach supports the automatic semanticsbased composition of presentation-oriented mashup applications. It includes a universal semantic model for mashup components, corresponding discovery and ranking mechanisms, as well as concepts for semantic data mediation. We have integrated our results with the composition platform CRUISe and successfully proved its sufficiency and validity.

Ontology-Driven Service Integration Into Web Applications: A Declarative Approach

“…Mashup platforms such as OMELETTE (Chudnovskyy, 2012) define coarse-grained components called widgets and enable ad hoc composition of applications by non-programmers. CRUISE (Pietschmann, 2011) operates with universal components such as data feeds, web services or UI widgets and applies Semantic Web technologies to perform run-time discovery and context-dependent adaptation of applications. However, this work focuses on data-driven components only and explores ways of their transparent integration into generic, also non-component-based applications.…”

Semantic service discovery and matching for semi-automatic service mashup

“…These previous works cluster parameter names in a collection of web services into semantically meaningful concepts and find similar operations by means of computing the input/output parameter name, concept, and operation description. Pietchmann [14] supported automatic semantics-based composition of presentation-oriented mashup applications including a universal semantic model for mashup components. Nagn [15] introduced an OWL-S based mediator for service-level and data-level mediation across heterogeneous semantic service descriptions.…”

“…Some recent works [3]- [7], [11], [14], [15] employed a new service description framework and languages such as OWL-S (formerly DAML-S), WSMO, h-REST, and SA-REST for semantic web service handling. Contrary to the 333 previous work, we are aiming at a practical use of a semantic web technology to find and match web services widely used in the real world without new service model and framework.…”

“…It usually needs a lot of time. In addition, to automate the seamless service chaining, the automation of finding and checking interoperability between the target services should be done first [12], [14], [15].…”

A Web-based Platform for Dynamic Integration of Heterogeneous Data

“…Using Semantic Web technologies to describe mashups and their components is not by itself a novel approach (cf. [16,18]). However, rather than capturing the functional semantics and focusing on input and output parameters like SAWSDL [11], OWL-S 11 , or WSMO 12 , we use a graph-based model [22,21,24] to formally annotate the input and output components as well as their relations.…”