Date of Award
2005
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.Sc.
Department
Computer Science
Keywords
Computer Science.
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Abstract
With the growing number of Web services, it is no longer adequate to locate a Web service by searching its name or browsing a UDDI directory. An efficient Web services discovery mechanism is necessary for locating and selecting the required Web services. Searching mechanism should be based on Web service description rather than on keywords. In this work, we introduce a Web service searching prototype that can locate Web services by comparing all available information encoded in Web service description, such as operation name, input and output types, the structure of the underlying XML schema, and the semantic of element names. Our approach combines information-retrieval techniques, weighted bipartite graph matching algorithm and tree-matching algorithm. Given a query, represented as set of keywords, Web service description, or operation description, an information retrieval technique is used to rank the candidate Web services based on their text-base similarity to the query. The ranked result can be further refined by computing their structure similarity. (Abstract shortened by UMI.) Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis2005 .J34. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-03, page: 1403. Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2005.
Recommended Citation
Jaghmani, Ismail, "Web service searching" (2005). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4556.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/4556