Emanuele Della Valle, CEFRIEL(IT)

Abstract

The Web is moving from a collection of static documents to a set of Web Services. Universal Description Discovery and Integration (known more often by its short name as UDDI) was proposed initially as a solution to publish and search for public Web Services. The standard was supported by major software vendors, and although it has been claimed to become successful in restricted and controlled environments, it has not prevailed in the domain of publicly available Web Services.

The European research project Service-Finder identified the problems that prevented UDDI from growing in the domain of public Web Services. It is currently developing a search engine where service related information from heterogeneous sources is automatically crawled and integrated in a coherent semantic model; and fast and easy access to such semantic models is providedthrough a Web 2.0 portal.

Emanuele Della Valle, CEFRIEL(IT)