A pragmatic approach for the semantic description and matching of pervasive resources

Purpose – There has been an increased interest in the use of semantic description and matching techniques, to support service discovery and to overcome the limitations in the traditional syntactic approaches. However, the existing semantic matching approaches lack certain desirable properties that must be present in an effective solution to support service discovery. The purpose of this paper is to present a solution to facilitate the effective semantic matching of resource requests and advertisements in pervasive environments.Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a semantic description and matching approach to facilitate resource discovery in pervasive environments; the approach includes a ranking mechanism that orders services according to their suitability and also considers priorities placed on individual requirements in a request.Findings – The solution has been evaluated for its effectiveness and the results have shown that the matcher results agree reasonably well with human judgement. T...

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