Abstract:In open Internet environment, it is inevitable that multiple ontologies coexist. Centralized service discovery mechanism becomes the bottleneck of SOC (service oriented computing), which results in poor scalability of system. Aiming at solving these problems, a two layered P2P based model for semantic service discovery is proposed in this paper. The model is based on ontology community and integrates iVCE (Internet-based virtual computing environment) core concepts into a P2P model. Based on this model, a service discovery algorithm composed of two stages and three steps is proposed. It matches services across communities as well as within community. Within a community, algorithm locates registers holding service information with a high probability of satisfying a request firstly. Then it captures semantic matching between service advertisements and service requests by logical reasoning. Service discovery across communities occurs according to some policies. The model is suitable for opening environment with coexistent multiple ontologies. Experimental results show that given an appropriate setting, the model can make a tradeoff between recall and responding time. In addition, the model will release the mean load of registers efficiently while holding recall.