An Ontology Based Service Specification for Enterprise Systems

  S Veena Nair,  G Senthil Kumar

Enterprise service architecture creates an IT environment in which standardized components will work together for reducing complexity. Service Discovery discovers a web services that meets our requirements and hence describes a particular service. Since there is no complete and clear understanding about the behavior of service, ontology is used for providing relevant services to the end user. Even though Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) and Universal Description Discovery Integration (UDDI) standards are used for the definition of service interfaces and service registries, they do not provide enough basis for a service consumer to get a full understanding of the behavior of a service. Ontology is a generic knowledge that represents agreed domain semantics that can be reused by different kinds of applications or tasks which is an efficient method to provide clear notion of service. Hence a generic service specification framework for an enterprise using ontology is proposed to get a clear view about the service provided and its functionality. The service specification framework is based on a founded theory, the ψ theory which can be applied both for specifying human services (i.e., services accomplished by the human beings) and IT services (i.e., services accomplished by the IT systems) .The ψ theory is all about the operation of organizations and communication between and production by social actors which underlies the notion of services.

Keywords- SOA, UDDI, WSDL, ICT, service discovery, enterprise ontology, Service Specification, human services, IT services

Unique Identification Number - IJEDRCP1403020
Page Number(s) - 95-98
Pubished in - Volume 2 | Issue NCETSE Conference | March 2014
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  S Veena Nair,  G Senthil Kumar,   "An Ontology Based Service Specification for Enterprise Systems", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.2, Issue NCETSE Conference, pp.95-98, March 2014, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDRCP1403020.pdf