Context-Aware Ontology Selection Framework

Abstract

Automatic discovery of services is a crucial task for the e-Science and e-Business communities. Finding a suitable way to address this issue has become one of the key points to convert the Web in a distributed source of computation, as it enables the location of distributed services to perform a required functionality. To provide such an automatic location, the discovery process should be based on the semantic match between a declarative description of the service being sought and a description being offered. This problem requires not only an algorithm to match these descriptions, but also a language to declaratively express the capabilities of services. This section presents a context-aware ontology selection framework, which allows an increase in precision of the retrieved results by taking the contextual information into account.