Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems (지능정보연구)

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Trends of Semantic Web Services and Technologies : Focusing on the Business Support

비즈니스를 지원하는 시멘틱 웹서비스와 기술의 동향

  • Kim, Jin-Sung (School of Business Administration, Jeonju University) ;
  • Kwon, Soon-Jae (Department of Business Administration, Daegu University)
  • Received : 2010.11.25
  • Accepted : 2010.12.09
  • Published : 2010.12.31
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Abstract

During the decades, considerable human interventions to comprehend the web information were increased continually. The successful expansion of the web services made it more complex and required more contributions of the users. Many researchers have tried to improve the comprehension ability of computers in supporting an intelligent web service. One reasonable approach is enriching the information with machine understandable semantics. They applied ontology design, intelligent reasoning and other logical representation schemes to design an infrastructure of the semantic web. For the features, the semantic web is considered as an intelligent access to understanding, transforming, storing, retrieving, and processing the information gathered from heterogeneous, distributed web resources. The goal of this study is firstly to explore the problems that restrict the applications of web services and the basic concepts, languages, and tools of the semantic web. Then we highlight some of the researches, solutions, and projects that have attempted to combine the semantic web and business support, and find out the pros and cons of the approaches. Through the study, we were able to know that the semantic web technology is trying to offer a new and higher level of web service to the online users. The services are overcoming the limitations of traditional web technologies/services. In traditional web services, too much human interventions were needed to seek and interpret the information. The semantic web service, however, is based on machine-understandable semantics and knowledge representation. Therefore, most of information processing activities will be executed by computers. The main elements required to develop a semantic web-based business support are business logics, ontologies, ontology languages, intelligent agents, applications, and etc. In using/managing the infrastructure of the semantic web services, software developers, service consumers, and service providers are the main representatives. Some researchers integrated those technologies, languages, tools, mechanisms, and applications into a semantic web services framework. Therefore, future directions of the semantic web-based business support should be start over from the infrastructure.

지난 수십 년 동안 많은 연구자들은 "어떻게 하면 사용자들이 웹서비스의 개발 및 제공 부분에 관여할 수 있을까" 하는 의문 속에서 이러한 방법에 대한 연구를 많이 진행해왔다. 이러한 관점에서 이전 연구를 고찰하면, 웹 서비스에서 다양한 성공적인 서비스가 나타나면서 더욱더 복잡한 방법으로 사용자의 참여를 도출하고 있다는 점에서는 많은 공헌을 하였다. 특히, 많은 연구자들은 시멘틱 웹 서비스를 지원하는 컴퓨터의 기능을 연구하고 이해하려는 능력을 향상시키기 위해 노력했다. 이러한 연구들-합리적인 접근방식은 기계가 이해할 수 있는 의미 있는 정보를 다양하게 제공함으로써 일반적인 사용자가 이를 사용할 수 있게 하는 것-중에서 대표적인 것으로 웹 인프라를 설계하는 온톨로지 설계, 지능형 추론 등 논리적인 표현방식의 적용 등이 있다. 이는 정보에 대한 의미론적 기능의 표현, 시멘틱 웹에서의 보관 및 검색기능, 이기종 및 분산 웹 리소스에서 수집한 정보를 처리하고 변환하는 기능 등에서 보다 나은 지적 접근방법으로 판단된다. 이에 본 연구의 목적은 시멘틱 웹 응용프로그램 및 기술에 대한 연구 동향 및 비즈니스에서 활용방안에 대한 가이드를 제시하였다.

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