Web Service Selection using Semantic Matching
Lalit Purohit, Sandeep Kumar · 2016
Web services are becoming a common and convenient means of doing business over the Internet. More-and-more web services are kept on arriving over the Internet, offering the same set of services to the end users. The availability of similar web services increases the complexity of discovery as well as the selection process of web services. The traditional way of discovery of web service involves keyword based searching followed by manual selection. The keyword based search is not efficient. In this paper, we have used an improved mechanism for web service selection based on Input as well as Output(IO) information of web services. The IO information of web services is obtained from OWL-S ontology. The results obtained by conducting experiments, indicate that there is a notable improvement in the search of the desired Web Service, using IO based matchmaking over keyword based search. This subsequently leads to better end user satisfaction and automation of web service selection task.