Methods of ontological service description for configuring decision support systems

The paper explores the possibility of leveraging automated service composition in order to simplify the development of decision support systems. In particular, it proposes a) a way of using OWL-S description framework to describe services that can be used in constructing (service-oriented) DSSs, and b) a method for describing the goal of composition. The proposed approach opens a way for automatically creating service compositions, which would possess certain features (functional and non-functional).