MOONRISE - Modeling Open Semantic Service Relationships

Dissertação de Mestrado em Engenharia Informática apresentada à Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de CoimbraThe increased importance of the service sector in industrialized economies of today makes the interest in services, and in relationships they establish with other services, a relevant subject with growing interest. Understanding the graph structure of service networks is necessary to evaluate current systems, to design future service networks, and to understand the impact of these networks in economy. Interesting studies in di erent types of networks leads us to believe that, in service networks, we could also reach relevant ndings for service economy. Although, the lack of research in the area of service networks, and the paucity of available service descriptions represent the main challenges of this work. Nevertheless, we propose to create an open semantic service network (OSSN) that addresses the concept of rich relationships between services. The resulting network will provide valuable knowledge to the global service economy and scienti c purposes with the service networks representation and analysis