Collaborative Design Systems as Semantic Web Services

OWL-S enables the semantic description of Web Services, aiming at the automation of tasks such as discovery, selection, composition and monitoring of Web Services. Collaborative design systems has some needs to help designers in assembling design components by helping them in searching adequate components, detecting conflicts, searching related documents, finding people with the adequate skills, etc. In this paper, we propose that collaborative systems are represented as Semantic Web Services to provide automatic discovery, selection, composition and monitoring of these systems and of the components, the related documents and the people involved in the systems. We also propose a way to booking of resources and people involved in a collaborative activity.