Hybrid ontology-based matchmaking for service discovery

The paper presents an ontology-based approach to service discovery, apt to support flexible and efficient matchmaking between service descriptions. We propose a hybrid approach that combines two matching strategies: a deductive strategy based on Description Logics with a reasoning procedure exploiting ontology knowledge to assess the type of match among services; a similarity-based strategy exploiting information retrieval metrics to measure the degree of match among services. Keywords Semantic Web Services, Ontology-based Service discovery, Service Ontologies, Hybrid Matchmaking

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: SAC
• Authors: Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Melchiori
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Efficient Matchmaking, Keywords Semantic Web, SAC 2006, Service Discovery