owls2wsdl

One of the most unregarded topics in the area of OWL-S is the top down approach of the WSDL Grounding. The translation of an atomic process signature implied the translation of the in OWL-DL defined parameter types. The tool interprets referenced OWL concepts as SimpleTypes or ComplexTypes. Collected OWL properties and restrictions are interpreted as elements. The translation tool GUI provides an semi-automatic approach, that allows the user to specify a primitive basetype for each element type, that doesn"t have a primitive datatype specified in the ontology. The generated data structures for an OWL class could vary for each configuration of the XML Schema generator. The translation focuses a comparative analysis of the results of OWL-S and WSDL matchmaker (used: OWLS-MX und WSDL-Analyzer).