Semantic Lookup in Service-Oriented Architectures

Lookup of services is an important issues in many distributed systems. This paper deals with lookup in service-oriented architectures, such as Web services, P2P systems, GRIDs, or spontaneous networks. Service-oriented architectures impose specific requirements onto the lookup service, for instance regarding the runtime extensibility of lookup models, runtime extensibility of lookup queries, construction of complex lookup queries, scalability, and fault tolerance. These requirements are not well solved by existing lookup approaches. We propose a semantic lookup service using Semantic Web ontologies, expressed in RDF. Query scripts are sent from the client to the server and are interpreted at server side using the RDF repository. We also present a safe, scalable, and efficient architecture for defining and querying lookup information using this lookup service concept.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ICWE
• Authors: Uwe Zdun
• Keywords: ICWE 2004, Lookup, Lookup Queries, Lookup Service