The Web Services infrastructure is a distributed computing environment for service-sharing. In this environment, resource discovery is required as a primitive functionality for users to be able to locate the services, the shared resources. A discovery service with centralized architecture, such as UDDI, restricts the scalability of this environment as it grows to the scales comparable with the ...

Due to the advent of service oriented architecture, web services have gained popularity. The need for efficient web service discovery increases because of the enormous growth of the web services. The main concern of this paper is to addresses the challenge of automated web service discovery and service similarity assessment. It utilizes the WordNet and a traditional information retrieval method...

Please cite this article in press as: Liu, M., et al. A (2009), doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2009.04.034 A critical step in the process of reusing existing WSDL-specified services for building web-based applications is the discovery of potentially relevant services. However, the category-based service discovery, such as UDDI, is clearly insufficient. Semantic web services, augmenting web service descript...

The advanced features of today’s smart phones and hand held devices, like the increased memory and processing capabilities, allowed them to act even as information providers. Thus a smart phone hosting web services is not a fancy anymore. But the relevant discovery of these services provided by the smart phones has became quite complex, because of the volume of services possible with each Mobil...

Web services are the new paradigm for distributed computing. They have much to offer towards interoperability of applications and integration of large scale distributed systems. To make Web services accessible to users, service providers use Web service registries to publish them. Current infrastructure of registries requires replication of all Web service publications in all Universal Business...

Web services are the new paradigm for distributed computing. They have much to offer towards interoperability of applications and integration of large scale distributed systems. To make Web services accessible to users, service providers use Web service registries to publish them. Current infrastructure of registries requires replication of all Web service publications in all Universal Business...

Web service discovery has been a challenging activity since a long time and is still a problem area to find the right service as per user’s criteria. Web service discovery process entails finding the most relevant service according to the user’s requirements. With the proliferation of web services, demand for automatic web service discovery framework has increased to provide services highly rel...

As we know daily thousands of new service providers register their services in the UDDI. The number of service providers providing the same functionality increases day by day. So it is very difficult for the service requester to choose the best service provider for their requirements from the UDDI. Hence web service selection plays a huge role in providing the best web services to the service r...