Automated semantic web service discovery with OWLS-MX

• DOI: 10.1145/1160633.1160796
• Publication Date: 2006-05-08
• Authors: Katia Sycara; Benedikt Fries; Matthias Klusch
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology; Semantic Matching; Service discovery; Similarity (geometry)

We present an approach to hybrid semantic Web service matching that complements logic based reasoning with approximate matching based on syntactic IR based similarity computations. The hybrid matchmaker, called OWLS-MX, applies this approach to services and requests specified in OWL-S. Experimental results of measuring performance and scalability of different variants of OWLS-MX show that under certain constraints logic based only approaches to OWL-S service I/O matching can be significantly outperformed by hybrid ones.