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Discovery of Heterogeneous Services
This event took place on Monday 13 June 2011 at 11:30

Alberto Fernandez Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

The talk will deal with the problem of service discovery in open systems. Different service description languages are considered and integrated into a unified framework, which allows specifying advertisements and queries in any of those languages. Those models include semantic models (OWL-S, WSMO), syntactic (WSDL), hybrid (SAWSDL), as well as other lighter approaches (keyword-, cloud-, and text-based service descriptions). Service descriptions are mapped into a unified common model.We do not only consider explicit information specified in structured service descriptions, but we enrich descriptions with additional information extracted using text processing.Then, we will focus on the service matchmaking process. The proposed method combines classical logic-based semantic service matchmaking approaches with concept similarity measures.

 
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Future Internet is...


Future Internet
With over a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Internet's physical infrastructure, software, and content now play an integral part of the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not. Now nearing its fifth decade, the Internet has shown remarkable resilience and flexibility in the face of ever increasing numbers of users, data volume, and changing usage patterns, but faces growing challenges in meetings the needs of our knowledge society. Globally, many major initiatives are underway to address the need for more scientific research, physical infrastructure investment, better education, and better utilisation of the Internet. Within Japan, USA and Europe major new initiatives have begun in the area.

To succeed the Future Internet will need to address a number of cross-cutting challenges including:

  • Scalability in the face of peer-to-peer traffic, decentralisation, and increased openness

  • Trust when government, medical, financial, personal data are increasingly trusted to the cloud, and middleware will increasingly use dynamic service selection

  • Interoperability of semantic data and metadata, and of services which will be dynamically orchestrated

  • Pervasive usability for users of mobile devices, different languages, cultures and physical abilities

  • Mobility for users who expect a seamless experience across spaces, devices, and velocities