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Attributes of a Web Service Modelling Framework.

Any  Web Service Modeling Framework provides the model for developing anddescribing web services and their composition. The philosophy of WSMF is based on the two following principles

(i) Optimal de-coupling,

(ii) complemented by scalable mediation service.

Four different elements are always present in the framework:

• Ontologies that provide the terminology used by other elements;

• Goal repositories that define the problems that should be solved by web services;

• Web services descriptions that define various aspects of a web service; and

• Mediators which bypass interoperability problems.

Note : The ontologies provide support for document types and semantics (correct population of attributes with domain values.)

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