Example: Semantics of Web Services

Web services technology is great
But if services are ubiquitous, searching issue comes up;
for example:
- “find me the most elegant Schrödinger equation solver”
- what does it mean to be
  - “elegant”?
  - “most elegant”?
- mathematicians ask these questions all the time…
It is necessary to characterize the service
- not only in terms of input and output parameters…
- …but also in terms of its semantics

Brussels, 19 April, 2004

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