IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007)
A Pragmatic Methodology to Web Service Discovery
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
July 09-July 13
ISBN: 0-7695-2924-0
As in linguistics the semantics co-exist with pragmatics to provide complete and unambiguous meaning to utterances, in the same way the pragmatics should augment the semantics in intelligent applications. Service-Oriented computing is an area where such intelligent applications are greatly facilitated. In this paper we propose a pragmatic methodology to web service discovery which utilizes both the pragmatics and the semantics. This methodology aims to solve a very basic problem of existing semantic discovery approaches: the inability of selecting the most appropriate service among many semantically equivalent web services.