Exploiting semantic information on a message exchanging middleware

In this paper we present our efforts on including semantic information on a middleware for message exchanging. The middleware configuration module makes use of a rule-based reasoner that infers the best module to be used on a given configuration of network and application. We have learned that a semantic-enabled message exchanging middleware is useful to decouple not only the application from the underlying communication facilities, but also the middleware itself from the task of selecting the appropriate module for a given configuration of application and underlying network.