NDLI: Ontology-Based Service Representation and Selection

Please wait, while we are loading the content...

Ontology-Based Service Representation and Selection

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Sensoy, M. Pmar Yolum
Copyright Year	1989
Abstract	Selecting the right parties to interact with is a fundamental problem in open and dynamic environments. The problem is amplified when the number of interacting parties is high, and the parties' reasons for selecting others vary. We examine the problem of service selection in an e-commerce setting where consumer agents cooperate to identify service providers that would satisfy their service needs the most. Previous approaches to service selection are usually based on capturing and exchanging the ratings of consumers to providers. Rating-based approaches have two major weaknesses. (1) ratings are given in a particular context. Even though the context is crucial for interpreting the ratings correctly, the rating-based approaches do not provide the means to represent the context explicitly. (2) The satisfaction criteria of the rater is unknown. Without knowing the expectation of the rater, it is almost impossible to make sense of a rating. We deal with these two weaknesses in two steps. First, we extend a classical rating-based approach by adding a representation of context. This addition improves the accuracy of selected service providers only when two consumers with the same service request are assumed to be satisfied with the same service. Next, we replace ratings with detailed experiences of consumers. The experiences are represented with an ontology that can capture the requested service and the received service in detail. When a service consumer decides to share her experiences with a second service consumer, the receiving consumer evaluates the experience by using her own context and satisfaction criteria. By sharing experiences rather than ratings, the service consumers can model service providers more accurately and, thus, can select service providers that are better suited for their needs.
Sponsorship	IEEE IEEE Comput. Soc. Tech. Committee on Data Eng IEEE Computer Society
File Size	3396478
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10414347
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	8
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-08-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Ontologies Open systems Context-aware services Electronic commerce Monitoring Aggregates Books electronic commerce. Multiagent systems ontology design
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Information Systems Computational Theory and Mathematics Computer Science Applications

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

Negotiating context information in context-aware systems

Experimentation with local consensus ontologies with implications for automated service composition

Toward an OSGi-based infrastructure for context-aware applications

Supporting Context-Aware Media Recommendations for Smart Phones

Toward an agent-based and context-oriented approach for Web services composition

Building toward Capability Specifications of Web Services Based on an Environment Ontology

Automatic Ontology Matching via Upper Ontologies: A Systematic Evaluation

Ontology-based service discovery framework for dynamic environments

Visualization of Ontologies to Specify Semantic Descriptions of Services

Ontology-Based Service Representation and Selection

Similar Documents

Negotiating context information in context-aware systems

Experimentation with local consensus ontologies with implications for automated service composition

Toward an OSGi-based infrastructure for context-aware applications

Supporting Context-Aware Media Recommendations for Smart Phones

Toward an agent-based and context-oriented approach for Web services composition

Building toward Capability Specifications of Web Services Based on an Environment Ontology

Automatic Ontology Matching via Upper Ontologies: A Systematic Evaluation

Ontology-based service discovery framework for dynamic environments

Visualization of Ontologies to Specify Semantic Descriptions of Services

Ontology-Based Service Representation and Selection