GloServGlobalServiceDiscoveryArchitecture.pptVIP

GloServ: Global Service Discovery Architecture Knarig Arabshian and Henning Schulzrinne IRT internal talk April 26, 2005 Overview Motivation Overview of OWL Architecture Registration Querying Future Work Motivation Why Global Services Ubiquitous computing is becoming prevalent in today’s society Traveler visiting a new city wants to know all classical music events. Doctor visiting a hospital wants to know medical services in this hospital. Visitor in starbucks wants to know if it offers local internet TV. What are the Challenges? Service description and querying Server bootstrapping on global scale OWL Overview OWL: Web Ontology Language Developed by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Approved as a standard for the Semantic Web Why OWL? Service description: creating a service classification ontology Server bootstrapping: using service classification to map services to servers Three sublanguages of OWL OWL Lite OWL DL OWL Full OWL Sublanguages OWL Lite Least expressive of the three sublanguages Supports a classification hierarchy (like RDFS) Supports core constraints of classes and properties. OWL DL Extends OWL Lite to include description logics (disjointness, union, intersection, etc.) Supports maximum expressiveness All conclusions are guaranteed to be computable and decideable (finishing in finite time) Includes all OWL language constructs OWL Full Similar to OWL DL Main difference: a class can be treated simultaneously as a collection of individuals and as an individual in its own right Characteristics of OWL Classes Contain individuals, which are instances of the class and other subclasses Set operators on classes Union, intersection and complement Equivalence, disjointness, enumeration Property Binary relation that specifies class characteristics Two types of properties: datatype and object properties Datatype properties: Relations between instances of classes and RDF literals or XML schema datatypes (string, integer, etc.) Object properties: Relatio