Re: Can OWL-S be used as a service composition language?

• From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
• Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:58:46 +0100
• To: "Linh Duy Pham" <lpham@ict.swin.edu.au>
• Cc: <public-sws-ig@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <AD2DC6E7-3CC4-4EDF-997E-3592ED0EDB5D@cs.man.ac.uk>

On 13 Aug 2007, at 06:14, Linh Duy Pham wrote:
[snip]
> In the OWL-S process model, there are control constructs which provide
> definition of composition of atomic processes. Each of these atomic
> processes can be grounded to different WSDL files. So I thought it is
> possible to use OWL-S as a service composition language as well  
> (like BPEL)?
>> From the literature, there is no clear distinction about this point,
> although I could be wrong.

I'm not sure what distinction you are making betweent he composition  
of atomic process and service composition, but if "like BPEL" is what  
you're after then the answer is "yes".

Cheers,
Bijan.

Received on Monday, 13 August 2007 12:58:04 UTC