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Flexible Semantic-Based Service Matchmaking and Discovery

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Automated techniques and tools are required to effectively locate services that fulfill a given user request in a mobility context. To this purpose, the use of semantic descriptions of services has been widely motivated and recommended for automated service discovery under highly dynamic and context-dependent requirements. Our aim in this work is to propose an ontology-based hybrid approach where different kinds of matchmaking strategies are combined together to provide an adaptive, flexible and efficient service discovery environment. The approach, in particular, exploits the semantic knowledge about the business domain provided by a domain ontology underlying service descriptions, and the semantic organization of services in a service ontology, at different levels of abstraction.

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    Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis & Michele Melchiori

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Bianchini, D., De Antonellis, V. & Melchiori, M. Flexible Semantic-Based Service Matchmaking and Discovery. World Wide Web 11, 227–251 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-007-0040-y

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