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• TITLE: Formal Semantics of OWL-S with Rewrite Logic

  AUTHORS: Ning Huang, Xiaojuan Wang, Camilo Rocha

  KEYWORDS: SOA, Web Services, OWL-S, Formal Semantics, Rewrite Logic, Consistent Transformation, Reliability Evaluation

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, Vol.2 No.1, April 16, 2009

  ABSTRACT: SOA is built upon and evolving from older concepts of distributed computing and modular programming, OWL-S plays a key role in describing behaviors of web services, which are the essential of the SOA software. Although OWL-S has given semantics to concepts by ontology technology, it gives no semantics to control-flow and data-flow. This paper presents a formal semantics framework for OWL-S sub-set, including its abstraction, syntax, static and dynamic seman-tics by rewrite logic. Details of a consistent transformation from OWL-S SOS of control-flow to corresponding rules and equations, and dataflow semantics including “Precondition”, “Result” and “Binding” etc. are explained. This paper provides a possibility for formal verification and reliability evaluation of software based on SOA.