Semantic Service Publication and Retrieval in the MAIS Project

According to the Service Oriented Computing paradigm, a lot of services have been recently implemented by several companies. Since the number of services are growing, tools able to aid people and software to look for a service are required. Current solutions, such as UDDI, even if compliant with the Service Oriented Computing paradigm, do not provide an efficient way to search for services, since they mainly rely on keyword-based approaches. In this paper we present an approach based on a semantic service description supporting the service publication and retrieval processes. Such an approach is based on an UDDI extension in which a service ontology is considered.