SOPHIE: Use case and evaluation

Services communicate with each other by exchanging self-contained messages. Depending on the specific requirements of the business model they serve and the application domain for which services were deployed, a number of mismatches (i.e. sequence and cardinality of messages exchanges, structure and format of messages and content semantics), can occur which prevent interoperation among a priori compatible services. This paper presents the evaluation of SOPHIE, a conceptual framework for supporting the conceptualization of ontology-based services choreographies. In doing so a three fold approach is taken that considers formal, epistemological and technical aspects. The formal evaluation tries to prove the consistency, completeness and conciseness of ontological model used. The epistemological evaluation enumerates the improvements and differentiating aspect of SOPHIE with respect to existing related work and reviews a number of application areas where the work was successfully applied. Finally, the technical feasibility evaluation tries to demonstrate the viability of the approach from the point of view of the engineering process required to allow the interaction of heterogeneous Semantic Services.