Abstract

Web Services has instigated it’s transcend and now education has been made simple through Web Services. With the advent of Web Services, education has become far more personal, flexible and available across global borders. Workflow is a sequence of business tasks to be realized for the execution of user’ request. Identifying required e-learning web services and dynamic composition and realization of those services is a challenging process. In this study we have suggested e-learning services workflow composing architecture and relevant algorithms for matching and composing e-learning flow for the learners with different learning styles. We suggested non logic based hybrid matching and composing algorithms which uses OWL-S profile and process ontologies for dynamic workflow composition of e-learning web services.

Keywords:

Ontology, ontology matching, OWL, semantic web, web services, workflow,

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