Semi-automatic web service composition for the life sciences using the BioMoby semantic web framework
Semi-automatic web service composition for the life sciences using the BioMoby semantic web framework
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jbi.2008.02.005
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发表时间：
2008-10-01
影响因子：
4.5
通讯作者：
Wilkinson, Mark
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作者：
DiBernardo, Michael;Pottinger, Rachel;Wilkinson, Mark
由于生命科学网络服务之间缺乏互操作性，生命科学研究人员目前仅限于小规模的信息学实验和分析。这个限制可以通过用语义信息注释服务和它们的接口来解决，这样互操作性问题就可以通过编程来推理。Moby语义Web框架是用于此目的的流行且成熟的平台。然而，在构建工作流时可供选择的服务数量对于用户来说变得难以管理。因此，已经尝试帮助服务选择和组合。这些任务属于自动化服务组合的一般标签。我们提出了一个原型工作流组装客户端，减少了用户必须做出的选择的数量（1）限制整体的服务提供给他们（2）排名服务，使最理想的是第一次。我们证明，通过这个原型的评价，相对简单的技术的统一可以排名理想的服务高度，同时保持交互式的响应时间。(C)2008年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
Researchers in the life-sciences are currently limited to small-scale informatics experiments and analyses because of the lack of interoperability among life-sciences web services. This limitation can be addressed by annotating services and their interfaces with semantic information, so that interoperability problems can be reasoned about programmatically. The Moby semantic web framework is a popular and mature platform that is used for this purpose. However, the number of services that are available to select from when building a workflow is becoming unmanageable for users. As such, attempts have been made to assist with service selection and composition. These tasks fall under the general label of automated service composition. We present a prototype workflow assembly client that reduces the number of choices that users have to make by (1) restricting the overall set of services presented to them and (2) ranking services so that the the most desirable ones are presented first. We demonstrate via an evaluation of this prototype that a unification of relatively simple techniques can rank desirable services highly while maintaining interactive response times. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.