Matching semantic web services using different ontologies

Abstract

The rapid development of semantic web services has led to a demand for a discovery mechanism. To perform discovery, researchers have developed Matchmakers to match web service requesters and providers. Current Match-makers do not support the matching of semantic web services that use different ontologies. Thus, even if the web service providers meet the requirement of web service requesters, such a match may be missed. This paper introduces a framework which supports matching web services using different ontologies. The Matchmaker algorithm, which incorporates a means of distinguishing different ontologies, is presented. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.