This paper shows that the problem of web services representation is crucial and analyzes the various factors that influence on it. It presents the traditional representation of web services considering traditional textual descriptions based on the information contained in WSDL files. Unfortunately, textual web services descriptions are dirty and need significant cleaning to keep only useful inf...

This article proposes a system architecture of a case based web services reasoner, CWSR, looks at the correspondence relationship between the main activities of CBR and those of web services, and proposes a unified approach for case-based web service discovery, composition and recommendation. The proposed approach will facilitate the research and development of web services, e-services, intelli...

Web services have acquired enormous popularity among software developers. This popularity has motivated developers to publish a large number of Web service descriptions in UDDI registries. Although these registries provide search facilities, they are still rather difficult to use and often require service consumers to spend too much time manually browsing and selecting service descriptions. Thi...

The advancement of cloud computing has enabled service providers to provide diversity of cloud services to users with different attributes at a range of costs. Finding the suitable service from the increasing numbers of cloud services that satisfy the user requirements such as performance, cost and security has become a big challenge. The variety on services description none uniformed naming co...

Service discovery is one key aspect in the enabling technologies for service-oriented systems including Web Services. Growing attention has been paid to the content of business and service descriptions to allow services to be discovered more flexibly and accurately. This paper presents an information model called an integrated service profile that covers aspects of Web Services, i.e. attribute-...

The advanced features of today’s smart phones and hand held devices, like the increased memory and processing capabilities, allowed them to act even as information providers. Thus a smart phone hosting web services is not a fancy anymore. But the relevant discovery of these services provided by the smart phones has became quite complex, because of the volume of services possible with each Mobil...

Recently, the use and deployment of web services has dramatically increased. This is due to the easiness, interoperability, and flexibility that web services offer to the software systems, which other software structures don't support or support poorly. Web services discovery became more important and research conducted in this area became more critical. With the increasing number of published ...

While Web Services already provide distributed operation execution, the registration and discovery with UDDI is still based on a centralized repository. In this paper we propose a distributed XML repository, based on a Peer-to-Peer infrastructure called pXRepository for Web Service discovery. In pXRepository, the service descriptions are managed in a completely decentralized way. Moreover, sinc...