Semantic service provisioning

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Service-oriented computing has gained significant traction in industry and academia, with major software vendors adapting their systems to meet evolving process and product demands in dynamic market environments. Despite the recognition of dynamic service binding as a core functionality since 2000, a robust industrial implementation remains elusive, primarily due to insufficient service specifications, concepts, and processing tools. This work introduces advanced concepts in service provisioning and engineering, including semantic concepts, dynamic discovery, and composition, illustrated through a concrete business use case. It presents a semantic service provisioning reference architecture framework, along with a prototypical implementation of its subsystems and a business scenario realization. By offering a coherent set of technologies and functionalities, the work surpasses current service-based software technologies, demonstrating advanced service provisioning concepts. Both the use case and provisioning platform have been validated through the EU-funded Adaptive Services Grid project, showcasing state-of-the-art research results that have undergone real industrial implementation evaluations, supported by collaboration among over 20 European partners in the field of semantic service provisioning.