%0 Conference Paper %1 Ambite/2007/Automatically %A Ambite, Jose Luis %A Kappor, Dipsy %B Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC/ASWC2007), Busan, South Korea %C Berlin, Heidelberg %D 2007 %E Aberer, Karl %E Choi, Key-Sun %E Noy, Natasha %E Allemang, Dean %E Lee, Kyung-Il %E Nixon, Lyndon J B %E Golbeck, Jennifer %E Mika, Peter %E Maynard, Diana %E Schreiber, Guus %E Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe %I Springer Verlag %K 2007 composing datum description information_integration iswc research_08 semantic_web services shim software_agent web_service workflow %P 15--28 %T Automatically Composing Data Workflows with Relational Descriptions and Shim Services %U http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org/papers/15.pdf %V 4825 %X Many scientific problems can be represented as computational workflows of operations that access remote data, integrate heterogeneous data, and analyze and derive new data. Even when the data access and processing operations are implemented as web or grid services, workflows are often constructed manually in languages such as BPEL. Adding semantic descriptions of the services enables automatic or mixed-initiative composition. In most previous work, these descriptions consists of semantic types for inputs and outputs of services or a type for the service as a whole. While this is certainly useful, we argue that is not enough to model and construct complex data workflows. We present a planning approach to automatically constructing data processing workflows where the inputs and outputs of services are relational descriptions in an expressive logic. Our workflow planner uses relational subsumption to connect the output of a service with the input of another. This modeling style has the advantage that adaptor services, so-called shims, can be automatically inserted into the workflow where necessary.

@inproceedings{Ambite/2007/Automatically, abstract = {Many scientific problems can be represented as computational workflows of operations that access remote data, integrate heterogeneous data, and analyze and derive new data. Even when the data access and processing operations are implemented as web or grid services, workflows are often constructed manually in languages such as BPEL. Adding semantic descriptions of the services enables automatic or mixed-initiative composition. In most previous work, these descriptions consists of semantic types for inputs and outputs of services or a type for the service as a whole. While this is certainly useful, we argue that is not enough to model and construct complex data workflows. We present a planning approach to automatically constructing data processing workflows where the inputs and outputs of services are relational descriptions in an expressive logic. Our workflow planner uses relational subsumption to connect the output of a service with the input of another. This modeling style has the advantage that adaptor services, so-called shims, can be automatically inserted into the workflow where necessary.}, added-at = {2007-11-07T19:13:58.000+0100}, address = {Berlin, Heidelberg}, author = {Ambite, Jose Luis and Kappor, Dipsy}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2bd5862f96633e4daaf9c9305347556c0/iswc2007}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC/ASWC2007), Busan, South Korea}, crossref = {http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/iswc-aswc/2007/proceedings}, editor = {Aberer, Karl and Choi, Key-Sun and Noy, Natasha and Allemang, Dean and Lee, Kyung-Il and Nixon, Lyndon J B and Golbeck, Jennifer and Mika, Peter and Maynard, Diana and Schreiber, Guus and Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe}, interhash = {d3e4d6418ea89f741920d077efcf4aea}, intrahash = {bd5862f96633e4daaf9c9305347556c0}, keywords = {2007 composing datum description information_integration iswc research_08 semantic_web services shim software_agent web_service workflow}, month = {November}, pages = {15--28}, publisher = {Springer Verlag}, series = {LNCS}, timestamp = {2007-11-07T19:20:52.000+0100}, title = {Automatically Composing Data Workflows with Relational Descriptions and Shim Services}, url = {http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org/papers/15.pdf}, volume = 4825, year = 2007 }