Re: Resources in Semantic Service Descriptions

Dear Jan

You may want to look at the work that was done on process ontologies, 
rather than semantic web services. The MIT Process Handbook, for 
example, had a notion that a process required a resource.

See http://ccs.mit.edu/ph/

Best

Avi Bernstein

Jan Ortmann wrote:
> Dear all, 
>
> My question is about resources in Semantic Web Services Descriptions.
> Are they simply not considered, because it is assumed that every service
> takes care of the required resources itself or has anybody taken them
> into consideration. For interorganizational processes they certainly are
> not within the scope of semantic descriptions, because companies
> wouldn't want to publish them. But what about different printers that
> offer different services to a user for example. Here, some QoS criteria
> definitely depend on the amount of other print jobs that printer has in
> its queue. And what about five clients trying to use a print service.
> Each of them might think the printer is optimal, but when they all try
> to access it at the same time, it is far from being the optimal printer.
>
> I have not found anything on resources and Semantic Service Descriptions
> so far. Is there any literature on that? 
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Regards, 
>
> Jan Ortmann
>
>
>   

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