Title: Multi-ontology matchmaker

Authors: Le Duy Ngan, Angel Eck Soong Goh, Tru Hoang Cao

Addresses: School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. ' School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. ' Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam

Abstract: The rapid development and the large number of existing web services have led to a demand for a discovery mechanism. Researchers have developed Matchmakers to match web service requesters and providers. Current Matchmakers are adequate when locating web services that use the same ontology but they do not support the matching of semantic web services that use different ontologies. This paper introduces a Matchmaker which locates web services that use different ontologies. The Matchmaker algorithm, which incorporates a means of distinguishing different ontologies, is presented, together with the overall architecture of the Matchmaker engine.

Keywords: semantic web; web services; discovery systems; ontology matching; matchmaker; ontologies.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2006.012950

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2006 Vol.1 No.4, pp.250 - 264

Published online: 31 Mar 2007 *

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