Ontology-based Semantic Service Interoperability

Enterprise interoperability in distributed environments has been recently improved by adopting the emerging Web Service standards and technology, making an ever-growing number of services available on the web. One of the major problems in this framework is how to make effective and efficient the process of matching service descriptions in order to find suitable available services for a given service request. Semantic service interoperability is thus a main research issue. In the paper, we propose the Semantic Driven Service Discovery approach for open P2P systems, where peers are organized in a semantic community for interoperability purposes. In the approach, ontologies are introduced to express domain knowledge related to service descriptions and to guide service discovery by mapping/matching service requests against service entertainments according to defined inter-peer semantic links.