Flexible Semantic-Based Service Matchmaking and Discovery

Automated techniques and tools are required to effectively locate services that fulfill a given user request in a mobility context. To this purpose, the use of semantic descriptions of services has been widely motivated and recommended for automated service discovery under highly dynamic and context-dependent requirements. Our aim in this work is to propose an ontology-based hybrid approach where different kinds of matchmaking strategies are combined together to provide an adaptive, flexible and efficient service discovery environment. The approach, in particular, exploits the semantic knowledge about the business domain provided by a domain ontology underlying service descriptions, and the semantic organization of in a service ontology, at different levels of abstraction. Keywords Hybrid service matchmaking approach ontology-based service discovery

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Melchiori
• Keywords: Internet Technology, Ontology-based Hybrid Approach, Service Discovery, Service Ontology, WWW 2008