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Members
Dr.
Taha Osman
Dhavalkumar Thakker
Prof. David Al-Dabass
Prof. Christophe Claramunt
Dr Evtim Peytchev
Publications
Projects
DYnamic SErvices Composition(DYSEC) Project
Semantic Framework for Image Annotation and Retrieval
Events
HPCS 2008 - Session on Web Services and the Semantic Grid
2nd Workshop on Challenges and Promise of Semantic Web
1st Workshop on Challenges and Promise of Semantic Web Services
Contact
Semantic Web services Research Network,
Nottingham Trent University,
315, CIB Building,
Nottingham NG11 8NS
United Kingdom
++44(O) 115 848 8370
++44(F)115 848 8429
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Web services are being increasingly adopted as the distributed computing technology of choice to publish application services beyond the firewall. They use XML extensively for messaging, discovery, and description. The use of XML messaging makes Web services platform and language neutral. These advantages allow multiple Web services to be integrated either to provide a new, value-added service to the end-user or to facilitate co-operation between various business partners.
Semantic Web - an initiative from the founder of World Wide Web, Tim Berners Lee is described as a Web of Data that can be processed directly or indirectly by machines. The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's web via the exploitation of machine-processable metadata - referred as domain theories or Ontologies. Semantic Web has strong research grounds but has yet to prosper in terms of industrial applications.
As Web Services become more popular, they become similar to Web pages in that they are more difficult to discover and integrate. Our work aims to harness the machine processability of Semantic Web to automate the problem of Web services discovery and integration. Visit the webpage of DYSEC group working on these topics.
Apart from discovery and matchmaking, the group also focuses on the following broader areas:
- Practical application of semantic web technologies in Information
retrieval, Data mining, Caption and Content-based Image Retrieval, Geographical Information Systems(GIS) and Knowledge engineering.
-Semantic Web services including OWL-S representation and implementation, service matchmaking and composition.