SWSA Use Cases


The Architecture Committee has organized its use case collection around a number of different potential environments for semantic web services. In particular, there is interest in all of the following communities that we believe will some day be reliant on this technology:

By developing cases focused in each of these areas, our we seek to elucidate technical and architectural differences and similarities that must be addressed in our abstract architecture. The aspects of semantic web service functions that will be addressed, and, where appropriate, highlighted by each community, are:
a)   Service invocation planning (message formulation) and response interpretation based on process descriptions
b)   Choreography (protocol) interpretation and execution
c)   Semantic translation/mediation (e.g., of message content, process descriptions or advertisments)
d)   Candidate service identification (matchmaking) and selection
e)   Automated Process composition
f)    Process mediation and delegation
g)   Service process status tracking
h)   Ontology management and access
i)    Security (including identification, authentication, delegation and policy-based authorization)
j)    Reputation services
k)   Service failure handling and compensation
l)    Negotiation and contracting
m)  Server executable process management (service factories, instantiation, migration)
These areas will be addressed through the development of specific use cases within the community-based scenarios developed.  Emphasis throughout should be on requirements for specific agents (clients, servers, middle agents) and associated (abstract) protocols.

We are using the shared SWSI Use Case Template as a guide.

Draft Usage Scenarios (group leader)

B2B (Christoph Bussler)

Semantic Web enabled Business Protocol Standards (RosettaNet and Enterprise Integration). (Zaremba/Bussler)

Web Services (Massimo Paolucci)

Amazon B2C Use Case based on the W3C Web Services Architecture Model (Paolucci)
Conversational Protocol of a book purchase service (Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Farouk Toumani)

Quality of Service (Amit Sheth)

Dynamic QoS based Supply Chain

GRID (Carole Goble)

Scientific Computing uses of semantic services descriptions and data models. 

Ubiquitous Computing (Tim Finin)

Dynamic Service Discovery for UC, including security policies.