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Web services are distributed software components, which are accessed through the World Wide Web. The increasing use of Web services raises the need for efficient and precise retrieval solutions of Web services. We propose to investigate aspects of Web service retrieval, facing a gap between user specifications, given in some form of a semantic description, and Web service definition, given in a standard interface description such as Web Service Description Language (WSDL), that conveys the syntax of the service. Bridging this gap is becoming more and more urgent as users need to find Web services among increasing numbers of Web services within organizations and on the Web. One of the major challenges of service-retrieval is to make services accessible without having to do additional semantic work of classification.
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Toch, E., Reinhartz-Berger, I., Gal, A., Dori, D. (2006). \(\mathcal{OPOSSUM}\): Bridging the Gap Between Web Services and the Semantic Web. In: Etzion, O., Kuflik, T., Motro, A. (eds) Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems. NGITS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4032. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11780991_37
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