Referencing multiple WSDL files using OWL-S

Hello
 
I am doing some research on dynamically composting several Web services from multiple locations. One of the main challenges in our work is to try and form compositions with other services irrespective of whether the service can directly accommodate a one-to-one composition. If the service discovers that the type information is different but the parameter names are conceptually equivalent we need to use the type information associated with the two IOPEs and try to find a service that can take as an input a value of type A and produce an output of type B, which helps indirectly perform a conversion into the required type. 
 
I am having problems deciding how I use the OWL-S ontologies to dynamically capture the information about composite services found. I thought about extending the Process Model and use a Composite Process to describe all the atomic processes that have been found (these could be several Web services located on different servers) but to use an additional property that defines the endpoint information where the atomic process can be found.
 
Basically I want to use a OWL-S service ontology that can describe a number of atomic processes located on a number of different servers.
 
I am not sure if this makes sense, however I would appreciate someones' advice on this matter.
 
Thank you in advance for your time and effort
 
Regards
 
Paul Fergus

Received on Tuesday, 6 January 2004 07:45:07 UTC