Web service composition is mandatory when complex functional requirements cannot be satisfied by a single Web service. Because of the exponential growth of available Web services, their automatic discovery and composition are highly desirable tasks. This paper presents a new approach for automatic Web service composition based on the formalism of Fluent Calculus using semantic service descripti...

Web Service Composition WSC problems can be considered as a service matching problem, which means that the output parameters of a Web service can be used as inputs of another one. However, when a very large number of Web services are deployed in the environment, the service composition has become sophisticated and complicated process. In this study, we proposed a novel cost-effective Web servic...

It has been shown in recent research that integrating the JSHOP2 planner with service robot task planning is appropriate and efficient. However, only few researches demonstrate the application of JSHOP2 planner in the problem of multi-tasks planning. The main reason is the environment that a service robot acts in is complex and the existing JSHOP2 planner is unable to adjust tasks’ order. To so...

The topic of this thesis is web service composition with using planning methods and knowledge approach. Web services are programs located on computer networks (mainly on internet). Each web service provides certain functionality (e.g. translation between two languages). If it is not possible fulfill request by one web service (e.g. it’s needed translate word from English to Spanish but there is...

Reducing the global unmet need for contraception is currently a priority for many governments, multi-lateral initiatives, non-governmental organizations, and donors. Evidence strongly suggests that the provision of quality family planning services can increase uptake, prevalence, and continuation of contraception. While an accepted framework to define the components of family planning service q...

introduction: due to the vital role of nurses and the effects of scientific advances on nursing care, providing high quality nursing services is not possible without participating in the in-service training programs and becoming familiar with the new techniques. this study aimed to determine the motivational factors influencing the participation in the in-service training courses among nurses w...

In this work we describe a “semantic personalization” web service for curriculum planning. Based on a semantic annotation of a set of courses, provided by the University of Hannover, reasoning about actions and change —in particular classical planning— are exploited for creating personalized curricula, i.e. for selecting and sequencing a set of courses which will allow a student to achieve her ...

In this paper we outline a framework for performing automated discovery, composition and execution of web services based solely on the information available in interface descriptions and service directories. In our framework we do not rely on the existence of semantic mark-up in service descriptions, thus making our approach “hard”. (From a planning perspective, we tackle the problem of plannin...