Leveraging Web Services for Information Discovery

Doron Cohen, Michal Jacovi, Michael Herscovici, Yoëlle S. Maarek, Noga Meshulam, Aya Soffer, Vladimir Soroka

Abstract: We present a new information discovery framework, a specialization of the Web Services model for information providers and consumers. It supports both push and pull of information, and maintains an efficient registry mechanism for locating information providers. We demonstrate this framework with Sheli, a unified information discovery console. Sheli users can easily customize their favorite information sources, and obtain information from them in a passive or active but always unobtrusive manner.