Dynamic service matchmaking among agents in open information environments

Sycara, Katia; Klusch, Matthias; Widoff, Seth; Lü, Jianguo

doi:10.1145/309844.309895

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“…A service profile provides a high-level description of a service and its provider [23,24]; it is used to request or advertise services with discovery services and capability registries. Service profiles consist of three types of information: a description of the service and the service provider; the functional behavior of the service; and several functional attributes tailored for automated service selection.…”

Section: Service Profilementioning

confidence: 99%

DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web

Burstein¹,

Hobbs

Lassila

et al. 2002

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In this paper we present DAML-S, a DAML+OIL ontology for describing the properties and capabilities of Web Services. Web Services -Web-accessible programs and devices -are garnering a great deal of interest from industry, and standards are emerging for low-level descriptions of Web Services. DAML-S complements this effort by providing Web Service descriptions at the application layer, describing what a service can do, and not just how it does it. In this paper we describe three aspects of our ontology: the service profile, the process model, and the service grounding. The paper focuses on the grounding, which connects our ontology with low-level XML-based descriptions of Web Services.

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Section: Service Profilementioning

confidence: 99%

DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web

Burstein¹,

Hobbs

Lassila

et al. 2002

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…However, work on developing such description languages [31,2,22,27] has focussed on their application in matchmaking and brokering, ignoring the potential role of negotiation. Matchmaking is not used to locate potential trade partners, but rather to determine the functionality of another agent prior to execution.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Semantic Web support for the business-to-business e-commerce pre-contractual lifecycle

2003

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semantic web, e-commerce, matchmaking, automated negotiation, DAML+OIL, service descriptionIf an e-services approach to electronic commerce is to become widespread, standardisation of ontologies, message content and message protocols will be necessary. In this paper, we present a lifecycle of a business-to-business e -commerce interaction, and show how the Semantic Web can support a service description language that can be used throughout this lifecycle. By using DAML+OIL, we develop a service description language sufficiently expressive and flexible to be used not only in advertisements, but also in matchmaking queries, negotiation proposals and agreements. We also identify which operations must be carried out on this description language if the B2B lifecycle is to be fully supported. We do not propose specific standard protocols, but instead argue that our operators are able to support a wide variety of interaction protocols, and so will be fundamental irrespective of which protocols are finally adopted. ABSTRACTIf an e-services approach to electronic commerce is to become widespread, standardisation of ontologies, message content and message protocols will be necessary. In this paper, we present a lifecycle of a business-to-business e-commerce interaction, and show how the Semantic Web can support a service description language that can be used throughout this lifecycle. By using DAML+OIL, we develop a service description language sufficiently expressive and flexible to be used not only in advertisements, but also in matchmaking queries, negotiation proposals and agreements. We also identify which operations must be carried out on this description language if the B2B lifecycle is to be fully supported. We do not propose specific standard protocols, but instead argue that our operators are able to support a wide variety of interaction protocols, and so will be fundamental irrespective of which protocols are finally adopted.

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“…In particular the LARKS description language [61] is defined to realize the agent matchmaking process (both at syntactic and semantic level) by using several different filters: Context, Profile, Similarity, Signature and Constraint matching.…”

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MIKS: An Agent Framework Supporting Information Access and Integration

Beneventano¹,

Bergamaschi²,

Gelati³

et al. 2003

Intelligent Information Agents

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Abstract. Providing an integrated access to multiple heterogeneous sources is a challenging issue in global information systems for cooperation and interoperability. In the past, companies have equipped themselves with data storing systems building up informative systems containing data that are related one another, but which are often redundant, not homogeneous and not always semantically consistent. Moreover, to meet the requirements of global, Internet-based information systems, it is important that the tools developed for supporting these activities are semi-automatic and scalable as much as possible. To face the issues related to scalability in the large-scale, in this paper we propose the exploitation of mobile agents in the information integration area, and, in particular, their integration in the MOMIS infrastructure. MOMIS (Mediator EnvirOnment for Multiple Information Sources) is a system that has been conceived as a pool of tools to provide an integrated access to heterogeneous information stored in traditional databases (for example relational, object oriented databases) or in file systems, as well as in semi-structured data sources (XML-file). This proposal has been implemented within the MIKS (Mediator agent for Integration of Knowledge Sources) system and it is completely described in this paper.

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Dynamic service matchmaking among agents in open information environments

Cited by 251 publications

References 11 publications

DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web

DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web

Semantic Web support for the business-to-business e-commerce pre-contractual lifecycle

MIKS: An Agent Framework Supporting Information Access and Integration

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