Workshop on Knowledge-based Electronic Markets, AAAI-2000

Service Discovery in the Future Electronic Market

Harry Chen, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Dipanjan Chakraborty, and Liang Xu

July 31, 2000

The trend that electronic markets are taking, aided by the concommitant development of mobile devices suggest a major change from the way electronic commerce is done today. The increased use of PDAs, laptops has showed us a new horizon of proliferation in the electronic market. When e-commerce services and transaction processing facilities need to be accessed from a wireless device,new and challenging research problems come into the picture. Discovering services dynamically will become increasingly important in the mobile e­commerce scenario. In the near future, a service would be selected automatically for a job, taking into consideration its physical location, context re­ lated and other semantic information. To support such a picture, the existing discovery mechanisms need to move beyond trivial attribute or interface matching. They would be much more knowledge based. In this paper, we present a summary of the existing service discovery protocols and the work that we have done in the service discovery area in our quest to make service discovery more dynamic.

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Tags: ecommerce, jini, service discovery

Type: Article

Publisher: AAAI Press

Address: Austin, Texas, USA

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