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.
Index Terms:
intelligent Web services, Semantic Web, Web services, universal description discovery and integration, UDDI, service discovery
Citation:
Takahiro Kawamura, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Akihiko Ohsuga, Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara, "Web Services Lookup: A Matchmaker Experiment," IT Professional, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 36-41, Mar./Apr. 2005, doi:10.1109/MITP.2005.45