Personalized, Semantic Web Service Discovery in Ayurveda Domain

Abstract

The conventional web consists with a collection of web pages already moved towards a collection of services accessible via Internet. The new paradigm of web is a market place of services accessible via internet. Introduction of SemanticWeb leads a revolution of existing web into a new generation of web with more capabilities. Semantic Web Services are one step ahead of current XML based web services with web service description languages. Tradition of natural medicine has been a part of culture and daily life even in western countries. Accessibility of Ayurvedic web services scales the community of herbal medicine. Thus need for locating relevant Ayurvedic web services is an important task to be achieved. The rapid increase in web services demands for the requirement of locating services. UDDI is a XML based platform independent web wide registry for publishing and querying web services. The current UDDI search mechanism guarantees only the syntactic interop- erability. It lacks capturing semantics from user query and performing a semantic based search. This research addresses the above problem by proposing a framework of ontology- based, personalized semantic web service discovery for Ayurveda domain. The proposed approach accomplished of personalizing a user in the perspective of Ayurvedic concepts by categorizing into one of the seven constitution types and diagnosing causes initiating for diseases. The proposed solution is capable of publishing services to UDDI registry and querying services. Major e ort is undertaken to capture Ayurveda domain knowledge to make use with technology and map its real world concepts into ontology concepts. Semantic search is performed by capturing semantics in user query and reasoning domain ontologies. The evaluation outcomes prove that the proposed approach is valid and feasible enough to use in real world web service search engines.