Re: Suitable OWL-S profile

Hi Charlie,

Here are my two cents. As far as I understand, you are talking about 
 matchmaking on the basis of keyword (or context)  i.e flights, travel 
etc, which is supposed to be taken of by engines like google... :-)

I think this is basically the problem of how fine (or coarse grained ) 
searches can be made. In most of the technical specifications that exist 
, the objective is to go down at the very low level of matchmaking, 
leaving the job of preliminary decision making to some other entity 
(maybe something inherent provided by registry services..???? or 
conventioanl search engines ). How to automate this process  via agents 
etc. should be possible and probably loads of them already exists

-Monika





Charlie Abela wrote:

>Hi,
>
>work on service matchmaking has focused mainly on matching the inputs and
>outputs that a requester presents with those that a service stored in the
>matchmaker provides.
>I want to discuss another aspect of the service matching phase. With the above
>situation it seems that the agent searching for a service has to know which
>inputs/outputs the service has to provide, independently of what the service is
>used for.
>I want to consider an example related to an airtravelling service (like the
>BravoAir service). I want to consider the following situations:
>1. suppose that the user is not making use of an agent to search for this
>service but is manually trying to find it tru a search engine, the keywords
>that this person enters could be similar to air travel and flights.
>2.suppose that now the user makes use of an agent, the same type of search would
>apply, cause one cannot assume that the person requester knows apriori what the
>inputs and outputs would be so he will not instruct his agent about these.
>Even though most examples I've seen state that the user will instruct his agent
>tru a natural language interface, this solution seems to be quite far at the
>moment, given also that there is no means of capturing context.
>
>So given these situations, I would like to ask whether it would be more suitable
>to provide a way for the user to be able to instruct his agent with info about
>the type of service he requires and the objective he wants to reach and not by
>providing the I/Os (the I/Os will be considered at a later stage of the
>matching phase, since most air travel services have similar I/Os).
>
>something along these lines:
>
>serviceCategory -> air travel (points to some standard classification: UNSPSC or
>NAICS)
>Objective-> flight reservation (points to some air travel domain ontology)
>GeographicRadius->Europe
>QualityRating->some_rating
>
>Charlie
>
>
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