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Semantic web services are considered as the concept bringing the web to its full potential by combining the best features of web services, agent technology, grid and the semantic web. In this paper we present an agent based architecture for migrating existing web services to the semantic web service environment. We developed the WSDL2Agent tool to support the migration. The tool automatically generates a Protégé project. With human interaction semantic information not present in the WSDL description can be added in Protégé and the project can be exported in OWL format. From the enhanced OWL description we can directly derive the skeletons of the elements of the Web Services Modeling Framework. The tool automates the most tedious tasks of the migration process and the users can focus on the semantic aspects.
This work was partly supported by the “Multiagent systems and applications” joint research project between the Hungarian and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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Varga, L.Z., Hajnal, Á., Werner, Z. (2004). An Agent Based Approach for Migrating Web Services to Semantic Web Services. In: Bussler, C., Fensel, D. (eds) Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications. AIMSA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3192. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30106-6_38
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