Semantic Service Discovery
From IRF 2008
[edit] Topic 3: Semantic Service Discovery
Current techniques of service discovery are based on keyword, meta-data and ontology-based search over service descriptions. This is suitable in tightly-coupled domains where service consumers can readily understand services offers from search results. However, within the wider setting of the Internet of Services involving a multiplicity of service domains, contexts and heterogeneity, this approach is unviable. The wider the domain, the more general the search descriptions. This places greater onus on consumers to know what they want before they search, limiting the exploitation of the Internet of Services.
- What are the challenges for transforming the search paradigm of service discovery to an automatic find paradigm?
- How can discovery be harmonized over services spanning domains as diverse as finance to digital media, with industry or community-based (folksonomy) ontologies, considering different contexts?
- How can natural language search be harmonized with structured discovery techniques?
- How can services that should exist, but do not exist, be discovered automatically?
