DR-BROKERING: A Semantic Brokering System

G. Antoniou, T. Skylogiannis, A. Bikakis, M. Doerr, N. Bassiliades, “DR-BROKERING: A Semantic Brokering System”, Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 61-72, 2007.

In this paper we study the brokering and matchmaking problem, that is, how a requester’s requirements and preferences can be matched against a set of offerings collected by a broker. The proposed solution uses the Semantic Web standard of RDF to represent the offerings, and a deductive logical language for expressing the requirements and preferences. We motivate and explain the approach we propose, and report on a prototypical implementation exhibiting the described functionality in a multi-agent environment.