Specifying Search Queries for Web Service Discovery
Shahram Esmaeilsabzali, Nancy A. Day, Farhad Mavaddat · 2011
Web services are meant to be easily accessible software systems. With the emergence of Web service technologies and the presence of thousands, or perhaps millions, of Web services in the coming years, the challenge is searching for a Web service that meets a specified requirement. In this paper, we propose methods and models for effectively specifying the search queries in a Web service discovery system. We show that while search queries should be specified precisely enough to contain information for appropriate matching, they should not be too detailed. Users often do not have a clear vision of their desired Web service and a search query should be at a high enough level of abstraction. We propose two models and show how they are appropriate for capturing search queries. 1