Joram Borenstein

Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are a significant step forward in aligning information technology with business goals. But SOAs are insufficient when the Web services of which they are typically composed use inconsistent terminologies and present different understandings of the real-world environment that they are meant to support. Enterprises need transparency, a clear view of what is happening in the organization. They also need agility, which is the ability to respond quickly to changes in the internal and external environments. Finally, organizations require integration: the smooth interoperation of applications across organizational boundaries. Encoding business concepts in a formal semantic model helps to achieve these goals and also results in additional corollary benefits. This semantic model serves as a focal point and enables automated discovery and ... (more)

Semantic Discovery for Web Services

The Web services vision of loosely coupled interaction between components, programs, and applications is already beginning to create impressive efficiencies of scale in business integration. The notion of a Web service registry such as UDDI is helping to turn this vision into a reality. Despite this, however, the comprehensive adoption of a truly dynamic discovery of Web services may still be delayed. The Challenge of Dynamic Web Services Discovery and Usage Currently, the majority of Web services are developed for internal enterprise use. Most existing projects are experimental, ... (more)