Better Behavioral Description for Dynamic Semantic Web Services Collaboration

Semantic Web services aim at enabling automatic service operations in order to keep human intervention to a minimum, enable seamless interaction between the services, reduce the risk of operation errors, and maximize the efficiency of the interactions. Current semantic Web services are functionally well-described, but behaviorally poorly-described especially for complex Web services. This defect may cause behavioral mismatches although the provider and the requester are functionally compatible. This paper presents a Web service behavioral description model with public and private processes, illuminates the importance of public process for complex Web service interactions, and proposes an approach to improve Web service behavioral description based on current proposed semantic Web services conceptual models.