Hierarchical Approach for Ranking of Semantic Web Services
Savitha Gopal, Anjusree Krishnanunni, Riya Peter · Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research · 2014
Semantic web services are the most revolutionary technology developed for the world wide web .Rapid growth of published web services, raises the problem of discovering the correct web service more and more difficult .Also there exist many web services which provide similar functional characteristics .Therefore a ranking mechanism is needed for locating the desired web service based upon user request. While considering the travel information services, user request may include many functionalities such as ticket reservation, hotel reservation etc. From these user requests, selecting the appropriate web service which satisfy all the user criteria is a crucial task .Many existing ranking approaches are available on web, but the exact matching between the user request and web services is not available. Therefore an approach for ranking and selecting web services based on user request is used here .For this purpose, a hierarchical based approach for ranking of semantic web services is implemented. Ranking of semantic web service is also done based upon the quality of service (Qos) of each web service. Thus a best quality web service is found as a result of user search criteria.