In this chapter we briefly review the current Web, Web service, and Semantic Web technologies, in the Sections 2.1, 2.3, and 2.2, respectively. We then review the typical usage patterns forWeb services, and show the shortcomings of current technologies with respect to these usage patterns, motivating the need for adding semantics to Web services, in the Sections 2.4 and 2.5.
For a more detailed description of Web technologies we refer the reader to [57, Chapter 2]. For a detailed description of the concepts underlying Web services, as well as Web service technologies, we refer the reader to [4].
For more comprehensive surveys on Semantic Web technologies we refer to [57, Chapter 3], [3], and [9].
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(2008). Semantic Web Services. In: Modeling Semantic Web Services. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68172-4_2
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