Representing process-based ontology using topic maps for Web Services

The intelligent discovery of Web Services is an important factor in automatic Web Services. Thus far, discovery methods have been heavily dependent on the input/output and the precondition/effect of a service. In addition, they have not used ontology describing internal operations. Thus, users have much difficulty in finding the service that they want with the previous methods. In this study, a process-based ontology, TM-S (Topic Maps-based Ontology for Service) is developed. The characteristics of TM-S are beneficial in terms of filtering out unrelated services and enhancing a user's retrieval capabilities. Additionally, TMS-QL (TM-S Query Language) was developed; directing users in how services can be found using TM-S.