document: A software framework for matchmaking based on semantic web technology An important objective of the Semantic Web is to make Electronic Commerce interactions more flexible and automated . To achieve this , standardization of ontologies , message content and message protocols will be necessary . In this paper we investigate how Semantic and Web Services technologies can be used to support service advertisement and discovery in e-commerce . In particular , we describe the design and implementation of a service matchmaking prototype which uses a DAML-S based ontology and a Description Logic reasoner to compare ontology based service descriptions . We also present the results of initial experiments testing the performance of this prototype implementation in a realistic agent based e-commerce scenario .
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