Context-aware, ontology-based, service discovery

T.H.F. Broens, S. Pokraev, Marten J. van Sinderen, Johan Koolwaaij, P. Dockhorn Costa

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    Abstract

    Service discovery is a process of locating, or discovering, one or more documents, that describe a particular service. Most of the current service discovery approaches perform syntactic matching, that is, they retrieve services descriptions that contain particular keywords from the user’s query. This often leads to poor discovery results, because the keywords in the query can be semantically similar but syntactically different, or syntactically similar but semantically different from the terms in a service description. Another drawback of the existing service discovery mechanisms is that the query-service matching score is calculated taking into account only the keywords from the user’s query and the terms in the service descriptions. Thus, regardless of the context of the service user and the context of the services providers, the same list of results is returned in response to a particular query. This paper presents a novel approach for service discovery that uses ontologies to capture the semantics of the user’s query, of the services and of the contextual information that is considered relevant in the matching process.
    Original languageUndefined
    Title of host publicationEuropean Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (EUSAI)
    EditorsPanos Markopoulos, Berry Eggen, Emile Aarts, James L. Crowley
    Place of PublicationBerlin / Heidelberg
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages72-83
    Number of pages12
    ISBN (Print)3540237216
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2004
    EventSecond European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, EUSAI 2004 - Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Eindhoven, Netherlands
    Duration: 8 Nov 200410 Nov 2004
    Conference number: 2

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
    PublisherSpringer
    Volume3295
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    ConferenceSecond European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, EUSAI 2004
    Abbreviated titleEUSAI 2004
    Country/TerritoryNetherlands
    CityEindhoven
    Period8/11/0410/11/04
    Other8-10 Nov 2004

    Keywords

    • EWI-7420
    • METIS-223881
    • SCS-Services
    • IR-66480

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