NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Sept. 29, 2009 — The Institute for Semantic Computing (ISC) announces today an alpha release of SemanticServices.Net, the world’s first public registry of services.
“SemanticServices.Net is a project whose mission is to help transform the currently unstructured Internet into a more structured problem-solving platform,” said Dr. Phillip Sheu, Founding Director of ISC and also a Professor at University of California, Irvine. “We are doing this by helping all solution providers to convert solutions into services with a simple mechanism.”
In SemanticServices.Net, a “service” can be anything - from a “web service” with an API that can be accessed by other services, an online service, a stand-alone software tool, or any content (text, image, video, etc.) to an offline service - that has the capability to solve a problem. What is required for a service to be connected to SemanticServices.Net is in the simplest case a “capability statement” expressed in a Structured Natural Language (SNL). SemanticServices.Net matches a problem statement from a user, expressed in SNL also, with the capability statement of each service and establishes a connection between the user and any matching service.
“This may change the way the Internet works today,” said Dr. Sheu. “The problem-solving paradigm is so general that it may cover almost all activities on the Internet. A traditional search engine like Google solves one type of problem and a Q&A system solves another - both can be considered as services. Our goal is to help everyone who is able to solve a problem to become a service provider and build an infrastructure to convert the Internet into a fair, and more efficient, network.”
About ISC: Semantic Computing addresses the derivation and matching of the semantics of computational content to that of naturally expressed user intentions in order to retrieve, manage, manipulate or even create content, where “content” may be anything including video, audio, text, process, software, hardware, network, etc. Founded in 2007, the Institute for Semantic Computing (ISC) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote Semantic Computing technologies with collaborations from academia, government and industry. See http://www.isc-home.org.
Contact:
Phillip Sheu
949.660.8882 (ISC), 949.824.2660 (UCI), 949.466.8846 (Cell)
psheu@uci.edu
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