A framework for web service discovery

Uddam Chukmol
2008 Proceedings of the 2nd SIGMOD PhD workshop on Innovative database research - IDAR '08  
With proliferation of published Web services, the task of finding relevant ones for the developers of service oriented application becomes more and more difficult. Several existing tools or mechanisms allow this discovery; however, those approaches often skip different elements such as service's quality, reuse, evolution and users' comment making the discovery result feebly relevant to requesters' need and prevent the requesters from using up-to-date and available web services efficiently. In
more » ... is research work, we present a framework for web service discovery taking into account the reuse of web service search result through caching technique, the quality of service through qualitative test result, the web service's evolution through version track technique and we provide a novel scheme of discovery using user's annotating information. Keywords Web service discovery, web service version evolution tracking, user's annotation, quality of web service, web service caching Even when a Web service is found at the end of the discovery process, none can assure that the service is operational or obsolete.
doi:10.1145/1410308.1410313 fatcat:prwt7iulo5f3zleoyvqebkepae