Semantic web service processes enabling goal-driven application creation

We propose a novel semantic web service process which consists of service annotation, discovery, and composition for a goal-driven computing. The proposed web service process is the key enabler of our goal-driven application creation environment that helps software developers to make new application semi-automatically by accomplishing their programming goals. Especially, in the goal-driven computing, we employ goal ontology and goal pattern library to bridge the gap between concrete services on the Web and user's declarative goals in the real world. The proposed semantic service process can be performed under the existing web services environment without new service models proposed for semantic and goal-driven computing by previous works, such as OWL-S and WSMO. Ultimately, we expect that the proposed process can promote the growth of converged applications across the domains and service providers.