Semantic Tuplespace

The tuplespace system is a popular cooperative communication paradigm in service-oriented computing. Tuple matching in existing tuplespace systems is either type-based or object-based. It requires that both tuple writers and readers adhere to the same approach of information organization (i.e., same terminologies or class hierarchy). Further, it examines the value of the tuple contents only. As such, these tuplespace systems are inadequate for supporting communication among services in heterogeneous and dynamic environments, because services are forced to adopt the same approach to organizing the information exchanged. In order to overcome these limitations and constraints, we propose a semantic tuplespace system. Our system uses ontologies to understand the semantics of tuple contents, and correlates tuples using relational operators as part of tuple matching. Therefore, by engineering ontologies, our system allows different services to exchange information in their native formats. We...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICSOC
• Authors: Liangzhao Zeng, Hui Lei, Badrish Chandramouli
• Keywords: ICSOC 2005, Tuple Contents, Tuple Matching, Tuplespace System