The BioCatalogue Functional Unit paper presented at IEEE 2010 Fourth International Workshop on Scientific Workflows
Functional Units: Abstractions for Web Service Annotations
“The work presented in this paper stems from the observation that current annotation models force users to think in terms of service interfaces, rather than of high-level functionality, thus reducing their effectiveness. To alleviate this problem, we introduce the Functional Units (FU) as the elementary units of information used to describe a service. Using popular examples of services for the Life Sciences, we define FUs as configurations and compositions of underlying service operations, and show how functional-style service annotations can be easily realised using the OWL semantic Web language.”
Paper presented at IEEE 2010 Fourth International Workshop on Scientific Workflows (http://www.cs.wayne.edu/~shiyong/swf/swf2010.html)
Abstract: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/SERVICES.2010.21
Full text can be found on the BioCatalogue wiki: https://www.biocatalogue.org/wiki/ (Publications and Citations)