Assessing Web Services interfaces with lightweight semantic basis

In the last years, Web Services have become the technological choice to materialize the Service-Oriented Computing paradigm. However, a broad use of Web Services requires efficient approaches to allow service consumption from within applications. Currently, developers are compelled to search for sui...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Garriga, Martín, de Renzis, Alan Ismael, Flores, Andrés Pablo, Cechich, Susana Alejandra, Zunino Suarez, Alejandro Octavio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/58500
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/58500
Access Level:acceso embargado
Palabra clave:DISCO
SERVICE DISCOVERY
SERVICE ORIENTED COMPUTING
SERVICE SELECTION
WEB SERVICES
WORDNET
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.2
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
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Sumario:In the last years, Web Services have become the technological choice to materialize the Service-Oriented Computing paradigm. However, a broad use of Web Services requires efficient approaches to allow service consumption from within applications. Currently, developers are compelled to search for suitable services mainly by manually exploring Web catalogs, which usually show poorly relevant information, than to provide the adequate "glue-code" for their assembly. This implies a large effort into discovering, selecting and adapting services. To overcome these challenges, this paper presents a novel Web Service Selection Method. We have defined an Interface Compatibility procedure to assess structural-semantic aspects from functional specifications - in the form of WSDL documents - of candidate Web Services. Two different semantic basis have been used to define and implement the approach: WordNet, a widely known lexical dictionary of the English language; and DISCO, a database which indexes co-occurrences of terms in very large text collections. We performed a set of experiments to evaluate the approach regarding the underlying semantic basis and against third-party approaches with a data-set of real-life Web Services. Promising results have been obtained in terms of well-known metrics of the Information Retrieval field.