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Modeling Semantic Web Services with the Web Service Modeling Toolkit

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The lack of any methodology for modeling Semantic Web Services means that developers wishing to utilize technologies like the Web Service Modeling Ontology, the Web Service Modeling Language, and the Web Service Execution Environment are lost in a Semantic wilderness with no road signs to guide them on their way. This paper presents an initial guide for developers wishing to model Semantic Web Services, along with a description of the Web Service Modeling Toolkit that provides tool support for the activities that must be conducted by the developer in this process.

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  1. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wgabbrev=semantic-ex.

  2. The WSMT is available for download at https://wsmt.sourceforge.net. Educational resources can be found at http://rease.semanticweb.org/.

  3. http://www.eclipse.org.

  4. http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/.

  5. http://www.ontotext.com.

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The projects COIN, SOA4ALL, SEEMP, and SemanticGov have contributed greatly to our understanding of Semantic Web Service Engineering and a number of the WSMT tools have been developed in these projects.

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  1. Semantic Technology Institute (STI), University of Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 21a, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    Mick Kerrigan, Elena Simperl & Dieter Fensel

  2. SAP Research CEC Dresden, Chemnitzer Str. 48, 01187, Dresden, Germany

    Adrian Mocan

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Kerrigan, M., Mocan, A., Simperl, E. et al. Modeling Semantic Web Services with the Web Service Modeling Toolkit. J Netw Syst Manage 17, 326–342 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-009-9130-8

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