Web service discovery is the process of finding a suitable Web service for a given user’s query through analyzing the web service‘s WSDL content and finding the best match for the user’s query. The service query should be written in the same language of the WSDL, for example English. Cross Language Information Retrieval techniques does not exist in the web service discovery process. The absence...

In this paper we analyse the applicability of our Context Ontology Language (CoOL), considering a range of use cases. After wrapping up the model in use within this language, we introduce some interesting applications of the language, based on a scenario showing the challenges in context aware service interactions. We focus on two submodels of our model for context aware service interactions, n...

This paper addresses an interface layer as an integral part of web service technologies that takes wellestablished web service specifications as a wrapper and accepts natural language specifications for the interapplication communication. In a growing complexity of web service networks the architecture of context becomes more and more an issue for both service providers and service requesters. ...

As a demand on composite Web services increases, there is a growing interest in a convenient access to them. This paper proposes a natural language interface to Web services, which can be used even by a novice user who does not know Web service technologies. Given a user‟s natural language request to a composite service, the proposed method generates an abstract workflow, which describes the co...

James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is founder of the Sociocultural Theory...

We discuss Web Service Management (WSM) and Web Service Composition Management (WSCM) applications of the Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL) and how the language supports these applications. WSOL is a language for the formal specification of classes of service, various constraints (functional constraints, Quality of Service—QoS, and access rights), and management statements (prices, monetary...