Representing Web Service Policies in OWL-DL

Abstract

Recently, there have been a number of proposals for languages for expressing web service constraints and capabilities, with WS-Policy and WSPL leading the way. The proposed languages, although relatively inexpressive, suffer from a lack of formal semantics. In this paper, we provide a mapping of WS-Policy to the description logic fragment species of the Web Ontology Language (OWL-DL), and describe how standard OWL-DL reasoners can be used to check policy conformance and perform an array of policy analysis tasks. OWL-DL is much more expressive than WS-Policy and thus provides a framework for exploring richer policy languages.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA448010

Entities

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  • Bijan Parsia
  • James Hendler
  • Vladimir Kolovski
  • Yarden Katz

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

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  • Energy and Power Technologies

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  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Birds
  • Computational Complexity
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Science
  • Language
  • Maryland
  • Ontologies
  • Relational Databases
  • Security
  • Semantics
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  • Universities
  • Web Service

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  • Computer science

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