Automatic Web Service Composition Based on Interface Matching
Yu Shou · 2007
This paper proposes a novel automatic Web service composition method based on interface matching, by abstracting Web service as an entity with input and output interface. With the current standard-WSDL as Web service description language, the interface matching algorithm is proposed from two aspects: name and data type of parameter in Web service message. This algorithm utilizes both clustering techinique and WordNet for parameter name matching. Parameters in service message are classified into concept cluster by utilizing clustering technique. The interface matching algorithm can discover potential message dependency by computing the similarity between service interface, which fulfils automatic and dynamic Web service discovery. Thus the automatic Web service composition is achieved. In the end, the matching algorithm is evaluated on the Textile Resource Planning system by experiments.