Our research focuses on Chinese online ink matching that tries to match handwritten annotations with handwritten queries without attempting to recognize them. Previously, we proposed a semantic matching scheme that uses elastic matching with a dynamic programming approach based on the radical model of Chinese characters. By means of semantic matching, a handwritten annotation may also be retrie...

This paper introduces an XML Schema management platform that promotes the use of matching techniques to fulfill the requirements of data integration and data exchange. The existing platforms, in the market, deal only with graphical but not automatic matching. Several matching algorithms were suggested, by different researchers, to automate the correspondences discovery between XML Schemas. Thes...

Service Oriented Computing (SOC) has gained maturity and there have been various specifications and frameworks for realization of SOC. One such specification is the Service Component Architecture (SCA), which defines applications as assembly of heterogeneous components. However, such assembly is defined once and remains static for fixed components throughout the application life-cycle. To addre...

The ability to describe the Grid resources needed by applications is essential for developing seamless access to resources on the Grid. We consider the problem of resource description in the context of a resource broker being developed in the Grid Interoperability Project (GRIP) which is able to broker for resources described by several Grid middleware systems, GT2, GT3 and Unicore. We consider...

Researchs conducted around Web service description use more and more of semantic models to provide an automatically interpretable representation. However, we identified gaps in current approaches that generate semantic ambiguity and impertinence at Web service matching and discovery. To address these shortcomings we propose contributions about semantic Web service description and discovery. As ...

This paper describes how a concept lattice that represents semantic relations (synonymy, hyponymy, hypernymy) in a set of words can be used for semantic matching. This kind of concept lattice is the result of the formal concept analysis technique used for determining semantic relations in a set of words extracted from a monolingual dictionary. It is shown how relations between concepts can be m...

Semantic similarity measures play an important role in information retrieval and information integration. Traditional approaches to modeling semantic similarity compute the semantic distance between definitions within a single ontology. This single ontology is either a domain-independent ontology or the result of the integration of existing ontologies. We present an approach to computing semant...

Various semantic web service discovery techniques have been proposed, many of which perform the profile based service signature (I/O) matching. However, the service I/O concepts are not sufficient to discover web services accurately. This paper presents a new method to enhance the semantic description of semantic web service by using the semantic constraints of service I/O concepts in specific ...

Interoperability among systems using different term vocabularies requires some mapping between terms in the vocabularies. Matching applications generate such mappings. When the matching process utilizes term meaning (instead of simply relying on syntax), we refer to the process as semantic matching. If users are to use the results of matching applications, they need information about the mappin...

The Web is moving towards the creation of a worldwide network of Web Services known as the Semantic Web. This new environment will allow agents to autonomously interact with Web information and services. This paper presents Apollo, an infrastructure which offers semantic matching and discovery capabilities to MoviLog, a platform for building mobile agents on the Semantic Web. Examples and exper...