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...quests as queries for specific Web service descriptions. The differentiation of goal templates and goal instances is a refinement of the WSMO goal model based on experiences in technology realization =-=[21]-=-. A similar two-phased discovery approach is presented in [11]. However, therein goals are described by the desired final state only; the input binding for invoking the discovered Web service is creat...

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...e number of necessary matchmaking operations. The paper is structured as follows. Section 2 briefly describes our approach for semantically enabled Web service discovery as presented in earlier works =-=[18,17]-=-. Then, Section 3 specifies the Semantic Discovery Caching technique. Section 4 presents the evaluation, and discusses the relevance and specifics of our approach. Section 5 positions it within relate...

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...st version of the BPMO modeling environment provides basic functionality for enriching existing process models with semantic annotations (e.g. by assigning a pre-defined semantic goal to an activity).=-=[5, 18]-=- In contrast, the approach introduced within this paper allows for a flexible and fine-granular semantic annotation of processes by directly accessing single ontology elements from the business domain...

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...us on a community of users sharing some interest or problems for a given topic inside the business domain. Our work belongs to the family of goal-based service retrieval approaches. These approaches (=-=[23, 24, 25, 2]-=-) aim at specifying the goals which have to be satisfied by the retrieved services. In these proposals, different models are providedtospecifygoalswithoutaddressingtheproblemofhowtocapturethem. On the...

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...which formally describes the objective to be achieved while abstracting from technical details; the system then automatically detects and executes the suitable Web services in order to solve the goal =-=[64]-=-. The notion of goals provides an explicit element for the client side of SOA applications which allows to lift the Web service usage by clients to the level of problems that can be solved. In additio...

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... Figure 4 the basic enterprise collaboration entities and their relations are well defined in a baseline ontology. • Semantic Goals: A client specifies the objective to be achieved in terms of a goal =-=[36]-=-, and the system resolves this by automated detection, composition, and execution of Web services. This concept allows dynamic discovery based on functional as well as nonfunctional properties, and ad...

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...ng [4][7][17]sfocus on the adoption of goal-based approaches fromsrequirements engineering to identify user’s requirements andsintentions. This vision is the base for several goal-basedsapproaches [1]=-=[23]-=-, which propose to take into accountsuser’s goals when proposing business services.sThe term goal has several different meanings. Accordingsto [6], a goal is an “optative” statement expressing a state...

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... in the tradition of previous AI technologies for automated problem solving. Figure 1 provides an overview of the goal-based SWS framework that has been developed throughout several works around WSMO =-=[7,16,15,18,14]-=-. This distinguishes goal templates as generic and reusable objective descriptions which are stored in the system, and goal instances that denote concrete client requests and are defined by instantiat...

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...rk takes place in the web services domain and concentrates more specifically on service discovery and selection. It belongs to the family of goal-based service retrieval approaches. These approaches (=-=[8]-=-, [9], [10], [1]) aim at specifying the goals which have to be satisfied by the retrieved services. In these proposals, different models are proposed to specify goals but none addresses the problemof...