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...

Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) can be profitably used in the domain of distributed Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), since they provide a way to effectively share and re-use information, tools, models and domain expertise, and to compose different tools to design a KDD process. A key SOA component is the service broker, which provides service publishing and discovering facilities, b...

Web services (WS) is emerging as the technology for integrating loosely couples applications employing three main protocols: WSDL (describing the WS), UDDI (publishing the WS), and SOAP (accessing the WS) using XML. WS could also be composed together to meet certain business requirements. Strategies for implementing WS include open source, such as XML and Java and product-based, such as Microso...

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 ...

Web services have become a new wave of Internet technology development. It is a new solution for dynamic business interactions over the Internet. A critical step in the process of reusing existing Web services is the discovery of potentially relevant components. Current Web services technology only provides syntactic description for Web service. In this paper, we first analyze the limitations f...

Web service technology has gained more important role in developing distributed applications and systems on the Internet. Rapid growth of published Web services makes their discovery more and more difficult. There exist many web services which exhibit similar functional characteristics. It is imperative to provide service consumers with facilities for selecting required web services according t...

The web has evolved from the HTML-based repositories of text and images towards the current web services and semantic web developments. Web services are believed to help the integration of diverse applications while the semantic web promises to increase the “intelligence” of the web, enabling richer discovery, data integration, navigation and automation of tasks. A natural next step would be th...

Service is the core concept of future Internet that named Internet of Services. This concept refers to software components as well as processing capacity and any other resources that can be offered through the Internet. There is a need for a third party that make registering and searching services easy and feasible. Web Service Technology (WST) is one of those current solutions to the Internet ...

Web services enhance current web functionality by altering its nature from document to service oriented. These services are self-describing, selfcontained, modular applications accessible over Internet. They can be used by humans or programs in order to accomplish a particular task. To benefit from them, an efficient discovery mechanism for locating and selecting the appropriate web services is...

The organisational change that comes along with the evolution of enterprise architectures (EA) towards service-oriented architectures (SOA) requires a consolidation of the enterprise’s information system. Though, the SOA paradigm is not restricted to application system functionality, but takes also semiautomatic and manual services of an organization into consideration. In order to reach the in...