A Pragmatic Approach for the Semantic Description and Matching of Pervasive Resources.
The increasing popularity of personal wireless devices has raised new demands for the efficient discovery of heterogeneous devices and services in pervasive environments. With the advancement of the electronic world, the diversity of available services is increasing rapidly. Traditional approaches f...
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| author | Bandara, A Payne, T Roure, D Gibbins, N Lewis, T |
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| description | The increasing popularity of personal wireless devices has raised new demands for the efficient discovery of heterogeneous devices and services in pervasive environments. With the advancement of the electronic world, the diversity of available services is increasing rapidly. Traditional approaches for service discovery describe services at a syntactic level and the matching mechanisms available for these approaches are limited to syntactic comparisons based on attributes or interfaces. In order to overcome these limitations, there has been an increased interest in the use of semantic description and matching techniques to support effective service discovery. In this paper, we present a semantic matching approach to facilitate the discovery of device-based services in pervasive environments. The approach includes a ranking mechanism that orders services according to their suitability and also considers priorities placed on individual requirements in a request during the matching process. The solution has been systematically evaluated for its retrieval effectiveness and the results have shown that the matcher results agree reasonably well with human judgement. Another important practical concern is the efficiency and the scalability of the semantic matching solution. Therefore, we have evaluated the scalability of the proposed solution by investigating the variation in matching time in response to increasing numbers of advertisements and increasing request sizes, and have presented the empirical results. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e3ce2b9a-b8da-4f06-968b-873840815b7d2022-03-27T10:11:53ZA Pragmatic Approach for the Semantic Description and Matching of Pervasive Resources.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:e3ce2b9a-b8da-4f06-968b-873840815b7dEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordSpringer2008Bandara, APayne, TRoure, DGibbins, NLewis, TWu, SYang, LTXu, TThe increasing popularity of personal wireless devices has raised new demands for the efficient discovery of heterogeneous devices and services in pervasive environments. With the advancement of the electronic world, the diversity of available services is increasing rapidly. Traditional approaches for service discovery describe services at a syntactic level and the matching mechanisms available for these approaches are limited to syntactic comparisons based on attributes or interfaces. In order to overcome these limitations, there has been an increased interest in the use of semantic description and matching techniques to support effective service discovery. In this paper, we present a semantic matching approach to facilitate the discovery of device-based services in pervasive environments. The approach includes a ranking mechanism that orders services according to their suitability and also considers priorities placed on individual requirements in a request during the matching process. The solution has been systematically evaluated for its retrieval effectiveness and the results have shown that the matcher results agree reasonably well with human judgement. Another important practical concern is the efficiency and the scalability of the semantic matching solution. Therefore, we have evaluated the scalability of the proposed solution by investigating the variation in matching time in response to increasing numbers of advertisements and increasing request sizes, and have presented the empirical results. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. |
| spellingShingle | Bandara, A Payne, T Roure, D Gibbins, N Lewis, T A Pragmatic Approach for the Semantic Description and Matching of Pervasive Resources. |
| title | A Pragmatic Approach for the Semantic Description and Matching of Pervasive Resources. |
| title_full | A Pragmatic Approach for the Semantic Description and Matching of Pervasive Resources. |
| title_fullStr | A Pragmatic Approach for the Semantic Description and Matching of Pervasive Resources. |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Pragmatic Approach for the Semantic Description and Matching of Pervasive Resources. |
| title_short | A Pragmatic Approach for the Semantic Description and Matching of Pervasive Resources. |
| title_sort | pragmatic approach for the semantic description and matching of pervasive resources |
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