METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING SERVICES BASED ON BEHAVIOR MODELS

A method and apparatus for providing service discovery are disclosed. Specifically, each service provider builds or constructs a behavior description or model of its service and, in turn, stores and publishes the behavior description. Each behavior description is implemented in accordance with a set of shared ontology of terms for a particular domain. In turn, a user may generate a query associated with service discovery that will be capable of exploiting the behavior descriptions for a plurality of services.