A Pragmatic Approach for the Semantic Description and Matching of Pervasive Resources

The increasing popularity of personal wireless devices has raised new demands for the efficient discovery of heterogeneous devices and services in pervasive environments. With the advancement of the electronic world, the diversity of available services is increasing rapidly. Traditional approaches for service discovery describe services at a syntactic level and the matching mechanisms available for these approaches are limited to syntactic comparisons based on attributes or interfaces. In order to overcome these limitations, there has been an increased interest in the use of semantic description and matching techniques to support effective service discovery. In this paper, we present a semantic matching approach to facilitate the discovery of device-based services in pervasive environments. The approach includes a ranking mechanism that orders services according to their suitability and also considers priorities placed on individual requirements in a request during the matching proces...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: GPC
• Authors: Ayomi Bandara, Terry R. Payne, David De Roure, Nicholas Gibbins, Tim Lewis
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, GPC 2008, Pervasive Environments, Semantic Matching, Service Discovery