Applying Semantic SOA Based Model to Business Applications - Enterprise Information Systems Design, Implementation and Management: Organizational Applications - page 1

Chapter 1
Applying Semantic SOA Based
Model to Business Applications

Tariq Mahmoud
Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany

Jorge Marx Gómez
Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany

AbstrAct

Nowadays, it becomes more and more critical and essential for the vendors in the business-related mar-
kets to tailor their products and software to meet the needs of the Small and Medium Businesses (SMB)
since their market share has been enormously raised and the issues related to the Business-to-Business
(B2B) environment are becoming great challenges to be considered. The semantic Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA)-based model involves Semantic Web Services to be applied in business environments
in order to have a consistent framework that makes the data understandable for both humans and ma-
chines. The ultimate goal for using the authors' proposed model is to transfer the enterprise Web into
a medium through which data and applications can be automatically understood and processed. The
main components of the proposed model and the vision of applying it to one of the business solutions
will be illustrated in order to show how these components can work together to overcome the traditional
SOA-based solutions weakness.

introduction And
probLeM definition

This calls for techniques to organize the Web
Services in a way that they can be efficiently
understood and outsourced. The Web becomes a
very helpful environment to share and extract the
information from multiple sources that were not
accessible previously. Web data had designed in
a way that it is understandable for humans and

Large scale, dynamics, and heterogeneity of Web
Services may hinder any attempt for understand-
ing their semantics and hence outsourcing them.