Web服务搜索技术综述

Web Services Search Techniques:A Survey

随着Web服务应用的迅速发展与日益普及,如何快速、准确地搜索到用户所需的Web服务成为了制约Web服务发展的关键问题之一。目前的Web服务搜索技术包括:基于UDDI注册中心、通过Web服务网站、使用专用搜索引擎与使用通用搜索引擎四种方式。对现有主要Web服务搜索技术进行了详细评述。在对典型Web服务搜索技术分析比较的基础上,指出了建立专用的Web服务搜索引擎的必要性以及所面临的问题与挑战。

The rapid development and wide employment of Web services inspires many researches on how to efficiently and effectively find the desired Web services for the users,which has become a challenging problem in Web services applications. Current Web services searching techniques mainly include UDDI registries,Web services portals,vertical search engines and general-purpose search engines. This paper surveys the state of the art of Web services searching,and based on a comprehensive analysis of existing techniques,points out that it is necessary and urgent to build new vertical search engines for effective and efficient Web services searching. Furthermore,major challenging issues to reach the goal are highlighted.