Abstract:
Services are pervasive in today's economic landscape, and services-based architectures are
being rapidly adopted as IT infrastructure. The need to take a broader perspective of services to
include people and organizational descriptions as opposed to technical interface descriptions has
already been recognized as part of an overall vision of Services Science [3][5]. The focus of this
article is to present the Semantic Services Science (3S) model, which seeks to demonstrate the
essential benefits of semantics to the boarder vision of Services Science, with service
descriptions that capture technical, human, organizational and business value aspects. We
assert that ontology based semantic modeling and descriptions can be used to energize services
across the broad service spectrum. In this article, we demonstrate how 3S approach could be
used along three points in this spectrum: 1) semantic descriptions of standard Web services with
the help of WSDL-S, semantic policies and agreements, 2) semantic descriptions of light weight
Web services using Web 2.0 technologies (e.g. REST, AJAX) and 3) ontology based profiling of
people and organizational aspects of the assets associated with the knowledge services.