DReggie: Semantic Service Discovery for M-Commerce Applications
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2001-10-12
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Abstract
The emergence of mobile devices and wireless networks
has created a new path in the field of e-commerce: “mcommerce”.
Significant research is needed, in the field
of service discovery, to support m-commerce applications.
Various new applications, that would use services available
to a mobile device from both the fixed network backbone
and peer mobile devices in its proximity, are being developed.
M-commerce applications have the challenging task
of discovering services in a dynamically changing environment.
The DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) is an
important tool in the process of developing the Semantic
Web. In this paper, we present a dynamic service discovery
infrastructure that uses DAML to describe services and a
Prolog reasoning engine to perform matching using the semantic
content of service descriptions. We believe that the
architecture we have designed is a necessary component of
any m-commerce infrastructure.