OmniVoke: A framework for automating the invocation of Web APIs
Publication date
2011-09-21
Document type
Conference paper
Author
Organisational unit
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Scopus ID
Conference
5th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 18-21 September 2011
Publisher
IEEE
Book title
2011 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Semantic Computing
ISBN
First page
39
Last page
46
Part of the university bibliography
Nein
Language
English
Keyword
Grounding
Semantic Web Service
Service invocation
Web API
Abstract
Web APIs, characterized by their relative simplicity and their natural suitability for the Web, have become increasingly dominant in the world of services on the Web. Despite their popularity, Web APIs are so heterogeneous in terms of the underlying principles adopted and the means used for publishing them that discovering, understanding and notably invoking Web APIs is nowadays more an art than a science. In this paper, we present our work towards supporting the automated invocation of Web APIs. In particular, we describe a framework that provides a unique entry point for the invocation of most Web APIs that can be found on the Web, by exploiting non-intrusive semantic annotations of HTML pages describing Web APIs in order to capture both their semantics as well as information necessary to carry out their invocation. © 2011 IEEE.
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