3rd International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharin

Research Article

Semantic overlay for scalable service discovery

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553861,
        author={Brahmananda Sapkota and Sanaullah Nazir and Tomas Vitvar and Ioan Toma and Laurentiu Vasiliu and Manfred Hauswirth},
        title={Semantic overlay for scalable service discovery},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharin},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
        year={2008},
        month={6},
        keywords={Delay  Distributed computing  HTML  Ontologies  Peer to peer computing  Protocols  Publishing  Query processing  Web and internet services  Web services},
        doi={10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553861}
    }
    
  • Brahmananda Sapkota
    Sanaullah Nazir
    Tomas Vitvar
    Ioan Toma
    Laurentiu Vasiliu
    Manfred Hauswirth
    Year: 2008
    Semantic overlay for scalable service discovery
    COLLABORATECOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553861
Brahmananda Sapkota1,*, Sanaullah Nazir1,*, Tomas Vitvar1,*, Ioan Toma2,*, Laurentiu Vasiliu1,*, Manfred Hauswirth1,*
  • 1: Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
  • 2: Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Leopold Franzens Universität, Innsbruck, Austria
*Contact email: brahmananda.sapkota@deri.org, sanaullah.nazir@deri.org, tomas.vitvar@deri.org, ioan.toma@deri.org, laurentiu.vasiliu@deri.org, manfred.hauswirth@deri.org

Abstract

Although the development of service infrastructure has gone through significant improvements, addressing service dynamism, heterogeneity and distribution, it still lacks a scalable and efficient mechanisms fitting the nature of the Web. In particular, methods to publish and find services based on decentralised approaches of service repositories are still in its infancy. We aim at providing an efficient solution for publishing and finding services dynamically using a transparent repository mechanism facilitating service providers who can join and leave a repository network on-the-fly while keeping the ownership of their own repositories. In this respect, we propose a semantic-overlay network of service repositories by exploiting semantics and peer-to-peer technology for query routing and for grouping repositories having similar information. We allow repositories to be in different semantic groups thereby forming a group of coordinating repository nodes. This way, we allow execution of complex queries with minimal query response times which in turn significantly reduces a number of repositories that need to be queried to get desired results.