Source: Nokia Research Center (2002)
Publication Type: Article
ISBN: 1458-951-22-6019-0
Abstract: This article will discuss issues of interoperability of Web Services. Semantic Web technologies, when applied to current Web Service architectures, will enable true automation and interoperation, and will 'futureproof' systems unlike a priori standardization approaches. We will extend the Semantic Web approach to Web Services to Ubiquitous Computing: By abstracting device functionality via software agents, and using Semantic Web technologies to describe agent services and capabilities, we can achieve a rich and deep form of service discovery. By discovering partially matching services, and piecing these together into 'virtual value chains', we can automatically form device coalitions which operate within a dynamically changing environment.
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