Automated semantic web service discovery with OWLS-MX

We present an approach to hybrid semantic Web service matching that complements logic based reasoning with approximate matching based on syntactic IR based similarity computations. The hybrid matchmaker, called OWLS-MX, applies this approach to services and requests specified in OWL-S. Experimental results of measuring performance and scalability of different variants of OWLS-MX show that under certain constraints logic based only approaches to OWLS service I/O matching can be significantly outperformed by hybrid ones. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Search and Retrieval]: Retrieval models; H.4 [Information Systems Applications]: Miscellaneous Keywords OWL-S, matchmaking, information retrieval

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ATAL
• Authors: Matthias Klusch, Benedikt Fries, Katia P. Sycara
• Keywords: ATAL 2006, Hybrid Matchmaker, Intelligent Agents, IR Based Similarity, Logic Based Reasoning