Applying Adaptive Hypermedia Techniques to Semantic Web Service Composition
Owen Conlan, David D. Lewis, Steffen Higel, Declan O’Sullivan, Vincent P. Wade · 2003
The semantic web has the potential to revolutionize the ways in which users search and manipulate the rapidly expanding amount of information on the web. This expansion, coupled with the capability of this information to be semantically related in a multitude of different ways, leads to increased possibilities for the Web user becoming `lost in hyperspace'. This danger stems from the fact that technologies which encourage semantic markup do not necessarily encourage appropriate vocabulary usage, resulting in inappropriate or misleading semantic relationships being formed. Users' expectations from information services on the Web are also increasing. This will lead to a proliferation of web services in this Semantic Web. Adaptive techniques, and in particular those used in Adaptive Hypermedia (AH), may be used to alleviate the semantic overload, while at the same time meeting the raised expectations of users. This approach leads to a number of research questions: How can Web Services be (successfully) used in an adaptive environment? and How do adaptive hypermedia and open hypermedia combine? This paper argues for the integration of semantic web, semantic interoperability, web services and AH technologies to meet and exceed the information requirements of users in the emerging Semantic Web.