Re: DAML-S and the UDDI initiative

Alvin and others -

Thanks for raising these interesting issues and questions regarding
DAML-S and UDDI, etc.  As it turns out, two of the folks most
knowledgeable about these aspects of DAML-S are traveling abroad this
week.  Please be patient; we'll be posting some answers as soon as
feasible :-).

Regards,
David Martin

"CHIN, ALVIN" wrote:

> I’ve read the paper and have some questions regarding about the
> publishing and requests for services in the DAML-S/UDDI matchmaker.
>
> If we are doing semantic searches for services using the matching
> algorithm proposed in the paper, does this mean that UDDI does not
> come into the picture after service publishing? (ie. After the service
> is registered with UDDI and then advertised in the AdvertisementsDB of
> the DAML-S matching engine).  According to the paper, it says that
> requests are sent from the Communication Module to the DAML-S
> Matchmaker engine.  This means then we don’t do a discovery in the
> UDDI registry, right?  We only do a discovery in the UDDI registry if
> we want to match by keyword in the TModel of the DAML-S profile (added
> to the UDDI record), that is, not do a semantic search.
>
> Is this correct?
>

Received on Friday, 21 June 2002 14:56:48 UTC