The process of ranking and narrowing down the list of market/query results within a services’ semantic information system based on user preferences.
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Semantic Discovery of Services in Democratized Grids
George A. Vouros (University of the Aegean, Greece), Andreas Papasalouros (University of the Aegean, Greece), Konstantinos Kotis (University of the Aegean, Greece), Alexandros Valarakos (University of the Aegean, Greece), Konstantinos Tzonas (University of the Aegean, Greece), and Symeon Retalis (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-650-1.ch026
Abstract
This chapter aims at discussing issues concerning the advertisement and semantic discovery of Web services in a democratized Grid environment: an environment in which users are agnostic of the low-level details for managing the services offered and requested. This type of environment poses new requirements, and thus, it affects the functionality of a service advertisement/discovery system. In the context of this aim, the chapter presents the motivation and the technologies developed towards a semantic information system in the Grid4All environment. The chapter emphasizes on bridging the gap between Semantic Web and conventional Web service technologies, supporting developers and ordinary users to perform resources’ and services’ manipulation tasks, towards a democratized Grid.