Web Services Lookup: A Matchmaker Experiment

  • Authors:
  • Takahiro Kawamura;Tetsuo Hasegawa;Akihiko Ohsuga;Massimo Paolucci;Katia Sycara

  • Affiliations:
  • Toshiba Corp.;Toshiba Corp.;Toshiba Corp.;Carnegie Mellon University;Carnegie Mellon University

  • Venue:
  • IT Professional
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

UDDI is a standard registry for Web services, but so far its search functionality has been limited to keyword search. These authors propose a UDDI enhancement called Matchmaker, which supports semantic service capability discovery. Since September 2003, they have deployed Matchmaker in one of four official UDDI registries operated by NTT-Communications. In this article, they introduce Matchmaker and illustrate client tools that lower the threshold for using semantics in service discovery. Experiments show that Matchmaker search consumes about 5 seconds more time than a typical keyword-based search. The authors also collected user information through questionnaires and by observation of search behavior.