Infrastructure for Ontological Resource Matching in a Virtual Organization

Abstract

In our earlier work we have outlined general approach to ontological matchmaking in an agent-based virtual organization. The aim of this paper is to describe in details how matchmaking is to take place within the system under construction. The Grant Announcement application is used to illustrate the proposed approach. Questions concerning efficiency of matchmaking will be addressed and in this context a distinction between asynchronous and synchronous matchmaking will be proposed.