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Tech Report kmi-09-05 Abstract

Open Services on the Web
Techreport ID: kmi-09-05
Date: 2009
Author(s): Maria Maleshkova

The goal of the here described research is to explore the possibilities of combining Semantic Web technologies and fundamental Web principles, including URIs and HTTP, and to apply these on open services on the Web, in order to contribute to a Semantic Web, which is not only an extension of the current Web with more semantic descriptions of data but is rather more dynamic and seamlessly integrates services as sources of that data, which can be automatically discovered, composed and executed by the computer on behalf of its user. This document is the first year probation report of this PhD study on open services on the Web.

Publication(s):

Maleshkova, M., Kopecky, J., and Pedrinaci, C. (2009) Adapting SAWSDL for Semantic Annotations of RESTful Services, Workshop: Beyond SAWSDL at OnTheMove, OTM2009, Vilamoura, Portugal, OTM 2009 Workshops

Maleshkova, M., Pedrinaci, C., and Domingue, J. (2009) Supporting the Creation of Semantic RESTful Service Descriptions, Workshop: Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web (SMR2) at 8th International Semantic Web Conference, Proceedings of ISWC '09, Washington D.C., USA

Future Internet

Knowledge
Management Multimedia &
Information Systems Narrative
Hypermedia New Media Systems Semantic Web &
Knowledge Services

Future Internet is...

With over a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Internet's physical infrastructure, software, and content now play an integral part of the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not. Now nearing its fifth decade, the Internet has shown remarkable resilience and flexibility in the face of ever increasing numbers of users, data volume, and changing usage patterns, but faces growing challenges in meetings the needs of our knowledge society. Globally, many major initiatives are underway to address the need for more scientific research, physical infrastructure investment, better education, and better utilisation of the Internet. Within Japan, USA and Europe major new initiatives have begun in the area.

To succeed the Future Internet will need to address a number of cross-cutting challenges including:

Scalability in the face of peer-to-peer traffic, decentralisation, and increased openness

Trust when government, medical, financial, personal data are increasingly trusted to the cloud, and middleware will increasingly use dynamic service selection