Title: Re: [regrep] regrep speed date
Thanks Richard. At this
point, it might be helpful (at least to me, since I was not able to attend our
call today) if you clarified what your intent is in sending the slides, and what
they are trying to depict. I noted a classic Publish/Find/Bind triangle, and the
role of the registry in SOA, which are both long-known news - what is brand
new in these slides?
Kind Regards,
Joseph Chiusano
Booz Allen Hamilton
Visit us online@ http://www.boozallen.com
From: Richard Martell
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Sent: Thu 3/31/2005 5:16
PM
To: Chiusano Joseph
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Subject: Re: [regrep] regrep speed
date
Chiusano Joseph wrote:
>
> Given that the term
"matchmaker" is often used in semantic technologies
> to denote actions by
inference agents, is it possible that we mean to
> use a different term
here?
>
The slide doesn't actually use the term--that's just
my own
characterization of its role. A registry can certainly
facilitate
semantic matchmaking. Consider this blurb about the "The OWL-S
Matchmaker":
----
The Matchmaker is also a web service that helps make
connections between
service requesters and service providers. The Matchmaker
serves as a
"yellow pages" of service capabilities. The Matchmaker allows
users
and/or software agents to find each other by providing a mechanism
for
registering service capabilities. Registration information is stored
as
advertisements. When the Matchmaker agent receives a query from a
user
or another software agent, it searches its dynamic database
of
advertisements for agents that can fulfill the incoming
request(s).
Thus, the Matchmaker also serves as a liaison between a
service
requester and a service provider.
----
<http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~softagents/daml_Mmaker/daml-s_matchmaker.htm>
So
matchmaker doesn't seem too out of place, even if _semantic_
matchmaking
pushes the envelope at the experimental/academic end of
the
spectrum.
Another possibility is the "Trader" concept from RM-ODP. Or we
just
do without a pithy, public role name
:-(
--
Richard
