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What is Ontology Pruning

Chapter 629
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
A method used to delete the elements of an ontology that are irrelevant.
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Using Ontology and User Profile for Web Services Query
Jong Woo Jong Woo Kim (Georgia State University, USA) and Balasubramaniam Ramesh (Georgia State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch630
Abstract
Web services have received much attention because of their potential for realizing service oriented architecture (SOA). As the number of Web services increase exponentially, discovering Web services that satisfy user’s specific needs has become a difficult task. In fact, the ability to find relevant Web services has been recognized as a key challenge in the realization of the potential of service oriented architectures. This chapter is organized as follows: In the next section, we discuss related research and various challenges and issues in Web services discovery. Then, we present several types of ontology and user profiles that may be used in the discovery process. Finally, we introduce a system architecture and discuss future trends and conclusions.
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