The introduction of software development via Web Services has been the most significant web engineering paradigm, in the last years. The widely acknowledged importance of the Web Services’ concept lies in the fact that they provide a platform independent answer to the software component development question. Equally important are the mechanisms that allow for Web Service discovery, especially a...

Existing methods and technologies for Web services discovery mainly consist of two models: service matching based on grammar and based on semantics. With keywords service matching method, we introduce text information retrieval technology with vectors and concept lattice theory. Then a web service discovery algorithm using eigenvectors is put forward. It orders the Web services by correlation a...

Web services are emerging as a promising technology for the development of next generation distributed heterogeneous software systems. Some prominent challenges for Web services are the discovery of services which match some given requirements, the composition of services into new complex applications, and the safe replacement of (sub)services. The primary objective of this thesis is to define ...

Semantic Web Services are a research effort to automate the usage of Web services, a necessary component for the Semantic Web. Traditionally, Web service discovery depends on detailed formal semantic descriptions of available services. Since a complete detailed service description is not always feasible, the client software cannot select the best service offer for a given user goal only by usin...

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...

Recent advancement in web services plays an important role in business to business and business to consumer interaction. Discovery mechanism is not only used to find a suitable service but also provides collaboration between service providers and consumers by using standard protocols. A static web service discovery mechanism is not only time consuming but requires continuous human interaction. ...

Consideration of QoS values for accurate web service Selection process has been highlighted in our previous survey paper. Further to that work, we claim that the best performance can be achieved by considering both functional and QoS properties. In this paper, we highlight the application of ontology to represent the non-functional requirements in web service discovery. We emphasize how Ontolog...

A major merit of the Web Service Modeling Ontology WSMO is the wellstructured and unambiguous definition of the description elements for its components. This allows developing concise, generic inference mechanisms for basic Semantic Web Service technologies like Web Service Discovery as the detection of suitable Wed Services for solving a Goal. This paper introduces WOOGLE, a basic but powerful...

The growing number of the Web Services available on the Web without explicit associated semantic descriptions raises a new and challenging research problem: How to discover efficiently the relevant Web Services that fulfill the user expectations. However, many services that are relevant to a specific user service request may not be considered during the service discovery process. In this paper,...

The success of Web services in business relies on the discovery of Web services satisfying the needs of the service requester. In this paper we discuss the use of data mining in the service discovery process. We recommend a set of applications that can leverage problems concerned with the planning, development and maintenance of Web services.