Two-Fold Service Matchmaking - Applying Ontology Mapping for Semantic Web Service Discovery

Semantic Web Services (SWS) aim at the automated discovery and orchestration of Web services on the basis of comprehensive, machine-interpretable semantic descriptions. Since SWS annotations usually are created by distinct SWS providers, semantic-level mediation, i.e. mediation between concurrent semantic representations, is a key requirement for SWS discovery. Since semantic-level mediation aims at enabling interoperability across heterogeneous semantic representations, it can be perceived as a particular instantiation of the ontology mapping problem. While recent SWS matchmakers usually rely on manual alignments or subscription to a common ontology, we propose a two-fold SWS matchmaking approach, consisting of (a) a general-purpose semantic-level mediator and (b) comparison and matchmaking of SWS capabilities. Our semantic-level mediation approach enables the implicit representation of similarities across distinct SWS by grounding service descriptions in so-called Mediation Spaces (M...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ASWC
• Authors: Stefan Dietze, Neil Benn, John Domingue, Alex Conconi, Fabio Cattaneo
• Keywords: ASWC 2009, Distinct Sws, Distinct Sws Providers, Internet Technology, Sws Matchmaker