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A Dynamic Foundational Architecture for Semantic Web Services

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The combination of Web services and ontologies is gaining momentum as the potential silver bullets for tomorrow’s Web, i.e., the Semantic Web. We propose an architectural foundation for managing semantic Web services in dynamic environments. We introduce the concept of community to cater for an ontological organization of Web services. We develop an ontology called community ontology that serves as a “template” for describing communities of Web services. We also propose a peer-to-peer approach for managing communities in dynamic environments.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan, Dearborn

    Brahim Medjahed

  2. Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech

    Athman Bouguettaya

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Medjahed, B., Bouguettaya, A. A Dynamic Foundational Architecture for Semantic Web Services. Distrib Parallel Databases 17, 179–206 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10619-004-0190-1

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