Ontology based Service Discovery Middleware for Heterogeneous Agent Platforms

Abstract—In ubiquitous computing environments to use distributed services and devices efficiently the basic information should be provided about types or locations of services in advance. A process explores such information that meets a user's needs. We call it as service discovery which is the most primitive system in distributed mobile computing environment such as ubiquitous. It is a trend that use of a combination of developed agent technology and service discovery to manage efficiently and flexibly distributed services, devices, and users. A number of agent platforms have been developed by many academic institutes; however there exist problems about interoperability among agent platforms. FIPA suggest a discovery middleware module that provides to interoperate between agent platforms. In this paper, we developed the prototype of ontology based discovery middleware based on FIPA specification to facilitate sharing services between FIPA-OS, JADE, and SLP platforms