Bridging the gap between service description models in service matchmaking

Issue title: Development of service-based and agent-based computing systems

Guest editors: Michael N. Huhnsw, Ryszard Kowlczykx, Zakaria Maamary and Rainer Unlandz

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Fernández, Alberto^{; *} | Cong, Zijie | Baltá, Analay

Affiliations: CETINIA, University Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain | [w] Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA | [x] Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia | [y] Zayed University, Dubai, UAE | [z] University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: alberto.fernandez@urjc.es

Abstract: In service-oriented architectures (SOA) the process of service discovery involves the matchmaking between service advertisements and service requests. Most approaches assume that both service advertisements and service requests are expressed using the same description language as well as domain ontologies. However, in large-scale open environments that assumption does not hold. In this paper we present a method that addresses the semantic mismatches at service description level. In particular, we focus on the alignment of service description models and service matchmaking on the unified request and advertisements. We propose a matchmaking method that encompasses different semantic, syntactic and hybrid service description languages.

Keywords: Service discovery, matchmaking, semantic web services, service oriented architecture, agreement technologies, semantic alignment

DOI: 10.3233/MGS-2012-0186

Journal: Multiagent and Grid Systems , vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 83-103, 2012