Matchmaking in Heterogeneous Environments
Résumé
In more and more service domains, composite services will be necessary, as application ranging from search engines (such as Google, Yahoo, etc.), to more general applications, like cooperative and distributed applications or e-business and e-commerce applications. In a lot of situations, the usable information is recorded by different persons, at different times, in different languages, on different fields. The composite service programme must have the capability to process the heterogeneous information. In this paper we focus on the problem of mismatch in knowledge representation languages. Specifically, we have implemented a matchmaking service in a homogeneous knowledge representation environment (using Description Logics). Based on this experience we show an approach for measuring mismatch in an heterogeneous knowledge representation environment.