Re: Resources in Semantic Service Descriptions

Hi Jan,

Jerry Hobbs, Ora Lassila and Srini Narayanan did some work on
resources in the context of DAML-S (now OWL-S).  You can find
their write-up at:

     http://www.isi.edu/~hobbs/daml-resources.html

Best regards,
Sheila


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On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Jan Ortmann wrote:

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> 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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