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ASG Key Results
On the highest level of abstraction, following results are achieved by the ASG project:
- Semantic Service Provisioning Architecture
- Service Integration and Development Tool-Chain and Methodologies
- Business Scenarios for Semantic Services
The interdependecies of these results are shown in the figure on the right. For example the arrow between the first and the second result shows that the result "Semantic Service Provisioning Architecture" is a basis for the "Servce Integration and Development Tool-Chain and Methodologies" result. The following text provides more details on ASG key results.
1. Semantic Service Provisioning Architecture
The ASG project developed a reference architecture and blueprint for semantic service provisioning platforms. Major features of an ASG-compliant platform are summarized as the ASG service provisioning features. For testing and evaluation purposes a reference implementation of a semantic service provisioning platform (known as the ASG platform) has been provided.
For more information see ASG Reference Architecture.
2. Service Integration and Development Tool-Chain and Methodologies
To provide systematic and easy-to-use support for development and tailoring of external services with the ASG platform, our project provides service integration and development methodologies. Furthermore a prototype of an integration tool chain is supplied to rise applicability of the methodologies. In addition the tool chain facilitates mechanisms for supporting development of ASG-compliant services by dynamically generating new services from service templates according to given semantic service specifications. The methodologies and the tool chain are key enabler for the ASG service provisioning feature "Seamless integration of heterogeneous external services".
3. Business Scenarios for Semantic Services
For evaluation and the preparation of practical application of the ASG architecture, reference platform, tool chain and methodologies business scenarios have been developed. Two of these scenarios, namely the "Attraction Booking" and the "Dynamic Supply Chain" scenario have been implemented on basis of the ASG platform to provide more detailed experiences.
A multi-media introduction to ASG and its concepts can be found in the ASG Animation.
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