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A. F. Salam and Jason R. Stevens

"Semantic Web Technologies and E-Business: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation"


Cardinality constraints govern the number of metrics values, constraining them to
remain within a specified number and range of values.
Part A in Figure 3 shows an example of QoS advertisement. Suppose we want to
specify the provider??™s advertisement for a service in which the average response time
is no more than 5 seconds and the cost is no more than one dollar. According to our
ontology design, this advertisement can be written in description logic??™s synax as:
Figure 3. Overview of OWL-QoS ontology design
QosProfile
ProviderQoS
Metric
string
nonNegtiveInteger
Unit
unit
metricName
value
AtomicMetric
ComplexMetric string
accessPoint
string
operationName
Function
hasFunction
operand
Metric
AverageResponseTime
MSMetric
TimeMSUnit
unit
CostUSCentMetric
<=100cost
CostUSCentUnit
<= 000averageResponseT me
B) Metrics Layer
A) Profile Layer and
Property Definition
Layer
C) Service Profile's
Individual Definition
D) Metrics??™ Individual
Definition
Metric
rdf:ID="AverageResponseTimeMSMet
ric1">
rdf:resource="#Average100"/>
rdf:resource="#ResponseTimeMSMetri
c1"/>
rdf:resource="#TimeMSUnit1"/>






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