Semantically Enhanced Search Mechanism for Web Service Registries

Abstract

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has emerged as one of the leading technologies that is being used by most of the business entities today in order to carry out most of their day to day business operations. It facilitates di erent business applications operating under in di erent platforms to interact with each other using standard protocols. As the amount of web services developed daily increase drastically new problems like service usage monitoring and automated service discovery emerged. Service discovery is one of the critical factors in SOA in order to get the maximum usage of its features like composition and interoperability. To get the maximum usage of the provided facilities of a service one needs to locate the service correctly. With the rapid increment of the number of available web services, nding out the appropriate service becomes a hugely challenging task. This gives rise to web service discovery mechanisms and di erent service registry mechanisms. Semantic based web service discovery is one such mechanism that could be used to enhance the service discovery phase of a particular registry. The work presented in this research consists of design, implementation and evaluation of a semantic based enhanced service discovery method that could be plugged in to any particular web service registry.