Matching Conflicts

• Brokers and matchmakers use keywords and domain ontologies to specify services.

• Keywords and ontologies cannot be defined and interpreted precisely enough to make brokering or matchmaking between grid agentsí services robust in a truly distributed, heterogeneous computing environment.

• Matching conflicts exist between clientís requested functionality and service providerís actual functionality.

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Here Ontologies specify a domain and key words specify functionality within that domain. E.g. Signal processing is a ontology , and FFT.is a keyword among this domain.