Toward a service creation framework: a case of intelligent semantic services

Semantic Web Services are touted as one possible solution for some of the challenges experienced with Web services; such as lack of automatic service discovery and consumption. Ideally, semantic services are meant to facilitate automatic business service provisioning and consumption on the Web. These services are enriched with semantics, which are derived from ontologies. Nevertheless, semantic-based services are scarcely adopted and utilised by service providers and consumers respectively. Some of the reasons noted in literature for this lack of adoption and usage include issues such as lack of real-life prototypes that are meant to demonstrate the benefits of semantic services; lack of integrated service creation frameworks; and unified development platforms that are purported to guide and promote simple engineering of semantic services. Thus, in this short paper our aim is on the proposal and presentation of a conceptual multi-layered and yet integrated service creation framework called iSemServ. The framework is intended to guide, simplify, and accelerate the process of engineering intelligent semantic services.