Figure 1

Traditional vs . SSWAP Information Flow. A) In a traditional model, different formats and technologies are used for registering/publishing (1,2), discovering (3), discriminating (4), invoking (5), and returning results from (6) services. B) In SSWAP, all actors operate on mutable, SSWAP-compliant, OWL DL graphs serialized in RDF/XML. Actors exchange graphs for description, discovery, querying, invocation, and response. All graphs are variations on the structured canonical protocol. An HTTP GET on a SSWAP semantic web service returns the SSWAP-compliant, OWL DL description of the service; an HTTP POST to the same URI with the query data in the body of the message (or HTTP GET with the graph serialized in the URI query string) invokes execution; the response is a similar OWL DL graph, but with explicit mappings of the query data to the return data. In all cases URIs to the data can be used instead of embedding the data itself.