As the Semantic Web develops it is anticipated that many different
kinds of services will be exposed as Web Services. The discovery,
invocation, and monitoring of these Semantic Web Services will be much
more involved, and powerful, than is achievable with today's handraulic
Web Services.
It is my contention that the current brokering
facilities on the Semantic Web are inadequate, and will require richer
representations of the processes involved, as well as an ability to
incorporate uncertainty in reasoning about service matches and service
composition. I examine some of the issues involved, and suggest
possible solutions, which will be investigated in my subsequent PhD.