Towards Semantic Web-Based Yellow Page Directory Services

This paper describes the ongoing work of IWebS (Intelligent Web Services) project, which studies the possibilities of the Semantic Web technology in creating an yellow page directory service for end-users. We propose an ontology-based mechanism for both advertising and finding the services. The essential parts of the system are ontologies for describing and storing service advertisements, a semantic service finder for the enduser, and a semantic service annotation editor for service providers.