Information integration plays an important role in academic environments since it provides a comprehensive view of education data and enables mangers to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of education processes. However, the problem in the traditional information integration is the lack of personalization due to weak information resource or unavailability of analysis functionality. In this ...

The Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO) provides the conceptual framework for semantically describing web services and their specific properties. The Web Service Modeling Language (WSML) is a formal language for annotating web services with semantic information, which is based on the WSMO conceptual framework. Service discovery, i.e., the automatic location of services that fulfill a user goal...

With the increasing application of web services in varying fields, the demand of effective Web service discovery approaches is becoming unprecedentedly strong. To improve the performance of service discovery, this paper proposes a collaborative Web service discovery and recommendation mechanism based on social link by extracting the latent relationships behind users and services. The presented ...

Information integration plays an important role in academic environments since it provides a comprehensive view of education data and enables mangers to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of education processes. However, the problem in the traditional information integration is the lack of personalization due to weak information resource or unavailability of analysis functionality. In this ...

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Web services are playing an important role in e-business and ecommerce applications. As web service applications are interoperable and can work on any platform, large scale distributed systems can be developed easily using web services. Finding most suitable web service from vast collection of web services is very crucial for successful execution of applications. Traditional web service discove...

Semantic web services promise to add automation and dynamics to current web service technologies, considerably reducing the effort required to integrate applications, businesses and customers. One of the key tasks in the integration process is to locate services that can fulfill the application, business or customer needs. With current web service technologies, this is done mainly manually, whi...

The Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO) provides a conceptual framework for semantically describing Web services and their specific properties. In this chapter we discuss how WSMO can be applied for service discovery. We provide a proper conceptual grounding by strictly distinguishing between service and Web service discovery and then present different techniques for realizing Web service disc...

With the advent of service oriented architecture, Web services have gained tremendous popularity. This warrants the need to establish an effective and reliable process of Web service discovery. This paper presents a novel approach to enhance the accuracy of Web service discovery by finding semantically similar Web services for a user query using the support-based latent semantic kernel. The emp...

The semantic Web service discovery has been given massive attention within the last few years. With the increasing number of Web services available on the web, looking for a particular service has become very difficult, especially with the evolution of the clients’ needs. In this context, various approaches to discover semantic Web services have been proposed. In this paper, we compare these ap...