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Semantics to energize the full Services Spectrum:Ontological approach to better exploit services at technical and business levels Amit Sheth LSDIS Lab, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, UGA Challenges Business/Organizational Challenges How to effectively create new business solutions using a global workforce How to make IT more responsive to business strategy Technical/Tactical Challenges How to add more dynamism in business process creation How to make processes adapt with changing environments Semantic Services Sciences (3S Model) Based on IBM’s vision [1] of service sciences Need to take a pervasive view of services Modeling people and organizational aspects as well as technical aspects of services The 3S model [2] Semantics for all types of services: Technical/Web Services to Knowledge Services Using the 3S Model Consider global IT service provider developing a new multimedia service for UK telecom provider Similar service already successfully provided in Japan To provide the new multimedia service Business manager must leverage assets Human assets Teams in China (Telco Equipment), India (Telco SW, Back Office) People who have domain expertise in the new market Project Management, … Technical assets Reuse SW assets and compose services to create technical platform Use lightweight services for information aggregation and GUIs Semantic Services Sciences (3S Model) Outline Semantics for Technical Services Data Semantics * Functional Semantics * Non Functional Semantics * Execution Semantics Semantics for Knowledge Services Conclusions Semantics for Technical Services Current and past focus of METEOR-S Semantics for Technical Services Data/Information Semantics What: (Semi-)Formal definition of data in input and output messages of a web service Why: for discovery and interoperability How: by annotating input/output data of web services using ontologies Functional Semantics (Semi-) Formally representing capabilities of web service for discovery and