Take a look at the new version of this page: [ beta version ]. Tell us what you think.

ABSTRACT

With the growing number of service advertisements in service marketplaces, there is a need for matchmakers which select and rank functionally similar services based on non-functional properties, such as QoS and reputation parameters. Current matchmakers only support predefined service description languages and predefined third-party repositories of service description documents, which both are hard-coded inside their internal structure, forcing providers to publish their services using a specific service publishing component. Therefore, current matchmakers are not able to look for existing services which are published using different service publishers.

In this paper, we propose a flexible matchmaker for service discovery, selection, and ranking, taking both functional and non-functional properties of the services into account. The matchmaker provides an expressive language for the clients to define service requests, specifying involved repositories, non-functional properties and a utility function for ranking Web services. The proposed matchmaker enables clients to search inside existing UDDI and third-party repositories and match already published services, while supporting different service description languages as well as emerging languages. Independency from the service description language and the type of the third-party repository is preserved as long as very basic constraints are satisfied.

REFERENCES

• 1: A. Andrieux, K. Czajkowski, A. Dan, K. Keahey, H. Ludwig, T. Nakata, J. Pruyne, J. Rofrano, S. Tuecke, and M. Xu. Web services agreement specification (WS-Agreement), March 14, 2007.
• 2: R. Chinnici, J.-J. Moreau, A. Ryman, and S. Weerawarana. Web services description language (WSDL) version 2.0, 2007.
• 3: Radu Jurca , Boi Faltings , Walter Binder, Reliable QoS monitoring based on client feedback, Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web, May 08-12, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada [doi>10.1145/1242572.1242708]
• 4: Steffen Lamparter , Anupriya Ankolekar , Rudi Studer , Stephan Grimm, Preference-based selection of highly configurable web services, Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web, May 08-12, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada [doi>10.1145/1242572.1242709]
• 5: Lei Li , Ian Horrocks, A software framework for matchmaking based on semantic web technology, Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web, May 20-24, 2003, Budapest, Hungary [doi>10.1145/775152.775199]
• 6: Hongen Lu, Semantic Web Services Discovery and Ranking, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, p.157-160, September 19-22, 2005 [doi>10.1109/WI.2005.132]
• 7: Shalil Majithia , Ali Shaikh Ali , Omer F. Rana , David W. Walker, Reputation-Based Semantic Service Discovery, Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, p.297-302, June 14-16, 2004 [doi>10.1109/ENABL.2004.52]
• 8: D. Martin, M. Paolucci, S. McIlraith, M. Burstein, D. McDermott, D. McGuinness, B. Parsia, T. Payne, M. Sabou, M. Solanki, N. Srinivasan, and K. Sycara. Bringing semantics to web services: The owl-s approach, 2004.
• 9: E. Michael Maximilien , Munindar P. Singh, A Framework and Ontology for Dynamic Web Services Selection, IEEE Internet Computing, v.8 n.5, p.84-93, September 2004 [doi>10.1109/MIC.2004.27]
• 10: OWL-S. Owl-s: Semantic markup for web services, 2004.
• 11: Massimo Paolucci , Takahiro Kawamura , Terry R. Payne , Katia P. Sycara, Importing the Semantic Web in UDDI, Revised Papers from the International Workshop on Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web, p.225-236, May 27-28, 2002
• 12: Massimo Paolucci , Takahiro Kawamura , Terry R. Payne , Katia P. Sycara, Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities, Proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web, p.333-347, June 09-12, 2002
• 13: M. P. Papazoglou , D. Georgakopoulos, Introduction, Communications of the ACM, v.46 n.10, October 2003 [doi>10.1145/944217.944233]
• 14: Shuping Ran, A model for web services discovery with QoS, ACM SIGecom Exchanges, v.4 n.1, p.1-10, Spring, 2003 [doi>10.1145/844357.844360]
• 15: tModel. Uddi version 2.03 data structure reference., 2002.
• 16: UDDI. The universal description, discovery and integration protocol. version 3.0.2, 2004.
• 17: WSLA. Web service level agreement language specification, 2003.
• 18: Z. Xu, P. Martin, W. Powley, and F. Zulkernine. Reputation-enhanced qos-based web services discovery. icws, 0:249--256, 2007.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.4 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS

General Terms:
Algorithms, Languages

Keywords:
flexible matchmaking, service discovery, service ranking, service selection, web services