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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
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