Pragmatic Web - Incorporating semiotics into web services

Kecheng Liu, Adrian Benfell

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Abstract

The evolution of the web exhibits a trend towards the needs of consumers as opposed to providers by offering contextualised information. The same trend is moving towards the notion of the Pragmatic Web by building on the Syntactic and Semantic versions. The ideas of the Pragmatic Web affords an array of opportunities should a business organisation wish to implement a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based upon web services. The Pragmatic Web will in the future provide the means to identify and consume contextually relevant web services. However, the challenges to achieve this aim require competencies that move beyond the current boundaries of web technology. Semiotics (the science of signs) is a long-established theory that can make a significant contribution to formulating an approach to discovering and consuming web services in the format of the Pragmatic Web.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICSOFT 2009 - 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, Proceedings
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2009
Externally publishedYes
EventICSOFT 2009 - 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Sofia, Bulgaria
Duration: 26 Jul 200929 Jul 2009

Publication series

NameICSOFT 2009 - 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, Proceedings
Volume1

Conference

ConferenceICSOFT 2009 - 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies
Country/TerritoryBulgaria
CitySofia
Period26/07/0929/07/09

Keywords

  • Pragmatic
  • Semiosis
  • Semiotic
  • Service oriented architecture
  • Web services

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