Method and supporting framework for business domain-oriented web service discovery

This paper proposes a new business domain-oriented web service discovery method and framework to solve the low precision results caused by UDDI （universal description,discovery and integration） syntactic discovery and the difficulty in selecting from among functionally equivalent web services.When requesting services,service clusters are extracted from concrete services in terms of functional requests; then, through business information properties consultation,the most suitable services are determined and finally bound to user requests.The whole process is transparent to users. This framework is also tested and supported through a prototype based on a travel domain,IPVita （intelligent platform of virtual travel agency）.

Task-oriented web service discovery algorithm using semantic similarity for adaptive service composition

In order to achieve adaptive and efficient service composition, a task-oriented algorithm for discovering services is proposed. The traditional process of service composition is divided into semantic discovery and functional matching and makes tasks be operation objects. Semantic similarity is used to discover services matching a specific task and then generate a corresponding task-oriented web service composition （TWC） graph. Moreover, an algorithm for the new service is designed to update the TWC. The approach is applied to the composition model, in which the TWC is searched to obtain an optimal path and the final service composition is output. Also, the model can implement realtime updating with changing environments. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the algorithm and indicate that the maximum searching radius can be set to 2 to achieve an equilibrium point of quality and quantity.

Reducing semantic bias of annotations for semantic web service discovery

In order to improve the effectiveness of semantic web service discovery, the semantic bias between an interface parameter and an annotation is reduced by extracting semantic restrictions for the annotation from the description context and generating refined semantic annotations, and then the semantics of the web service is refined. These restrictions are dynamically extracted from the parsing tree of the description text, with the guide of the restriction template extracted from the ontology definition. New semantic annotations are then generated by combining the original concept with the restrictions and represented via refined concept expressions. In addition, a novel semantic similarity measure for refined concept expressions is proposed for semantic web service discovery. Experimental results show that the matchmaker based on this method can improve the average precision of discovery and exhibit low computational complexity. Reducing the semantic bias by utilizing restriction information of annotations can refine the semantics of the web service and improve the discovery effectiveness.

An Efficient Grid Service Discovery Mechanism Based on the Locality Principle

With the explosion of services in grid environment, it＇s necessary to develop a mechanism which has the ability of discovering suitable grid services efficiently. This paper attempts to establish a layered resource management model based on the locality principle which classifies services into different domains and virtual organizations （VOs） according to their shared purposes. We propose an ontologybased search method applying the ontology theory for characterizing semantic information. In addition, we extend the UD- D1 in querying, storing, and so on. Simulation experiments have shown that our mechanism achieves higher performance in precision, recall and query response time.

A dynamic grid service discovery model： TDMSD

Frequent joining and withdrawal of resources and services in a grid make dynamic discovery of grid resource and service quite difficult. In this paper, a two-dimensional model of service discovery （TDMSD） is presented for use of dynamic service discovery. Description and proof of the model and the route algorithm of service discovery are proposed. The complexity analysis and simulation results show that the TDMSD model works well.

Automatic Service Discovery in Universal Plug and Play

The home network technologies are taking advantage of the increasingly promising market prospect, thank to the popularity of digital home appliances. To enable control and data transfer among interconnected home network devices, it is necessary to adopt the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) technology. This technology leverages the Internet technical standards including the Internet Protocol (IP), the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and the Extensible Markup Language (XML) to provide the automatic across-platform service discovery and the remote control. In addition to the control and the data transfer among networked devices, the UPnP provides the flexible and robust service discovery ability to change the complex network device drive into a simple remote network control.

Dynamic Service Discovery, Composition and Reconfiguration in a Model Mapping Business Process to Web Services

In any organization where SOA has been implemented, all of the web services are registered in UDDI and users’ needs are served by using appropriate web services. So in this paper, we will try to discover a service from repository first that can provide the required output to the user. The process becomes difficult when a single service is not able to fulfill a user’s need and we need a combination of services to answer complex needs of users. In our paper, we will suggest a simpler approach for dynamic service composition using a graph based methodology. This will be a design time service composition. This approach uses the functional and non-functional parameters of the services to select the most suitable services for composition as per user’s need. This approach involves “service classification” on the basis of functional parameters, “service discovery” on the basis of user’s need and then “service composition” using the selected services on the basis of non-functional parameters like response time, cost, security and availability. Another challenge in SOA implementation is that, once the composition has performed, some services may become faulty at runtime and may stop the entire process of serving a user’s need. So, we will also describe a way of “dynamic service reconfiguration” in our approach that will enable us to identify and replace a faulty service that is violating the SLA or is not accessible anymore. This service reconfiguration is done without redoing or reconfiguring the entire composition. In the end, to simulate the proposed approach, we will represent a prototype application built on php 5.4 using My SQL database at backend.

A Service Discovery Approach Based on a Quantitative Similarity Measure for M-Tourism Platforms

This paper presents a localization architecture for an m-tourism services delivery platform. The aim of the system is to deliver services for nomads (e-tourists) according to their localization and according to the results given by the search engine. This engine is based on a quantitative similarity measure. The discovered services are presented via a Web Map Service. Moreover, the platform integrates an adaptation sub-system for heterogeneous environments and an e-negotiation module.

Development of a Smart Technique for Mobile Web Services Discovery

Web service(WS)presents a good solution to the interoperability of different types of systems that aims to reduce the overhead of high processing in a resource-limited environment.With the increasing demand for mobile WS(MWS),the WS discovery process has become a significant challenging point in the WS lifecycle that aims to identify the relevant MWSs that best match the service requests.This discovery process is a resource-consuming task that cannot be performed efficiently in a mobile computing environment due to the limitations of mobile devices.Meanwhile,a cloud computing can provide rich computing resources for mobile environments given its unlimited and easily scalable resources.This paper proposes a semantic WS discovery and invocation framework in mobile environments based on cloud and a relationship-aware matchmaking algorithm.The discovery algorithm enriches MWS and user requests semantically with the functional and non-functional properties of Ontology Web Language for Services,such as Quality of Web Service,device context,and user preferences.The WS repository is filtered based on logical reasoning and a parameter-based matching algorithm to minimize the matching space and improve runtime performance.The cosine similarity between the user request and services repository is then assessed to generate the most relevant WS.The relationships among concepts in the ontology are considered to improve the recall and precision ratio.After the WS discovery process,users can invoke and test these services in a mobile environment through a dynamic user interface.The interface of the invocation process is changed according to the WS description document.An application prototype is also developed to evaluate the framework based on a Cordova cross-mobile development framework.

Web Service Description and Discovery Based on Semantic Model

A novel semantic model of Web service descrip tion and discovery was proposed through an extension for profile model of Web ontology language for services （OWL-S） in this paper. Similarity matching of Web services was implemented through computing weighted summation of semantic similarity value based on specific domain ontology and dynamical satisfy extent evaluation for quality of service （QoS）. Experiments show that the provided semantic matching model is efficient.

Towards structural web services discovery

A syntactic and structural matching mechanism for service discovery was put forward, which tries to exploit the underlying semantics of web services to enhance tbe traditional syntactic service discovery. We commit WSDL （Web Service Description Language） as service description language. The syntactic matching mechanism is based on the textual similarity among WSDL documents using VSM （ Vector Space Model）. The structural information is extracted from WSDL document tree or the invocation sequence of a series of services which can be viewed as the problem of graph isomorphism. Then we combine the syntactic and structural similarity linearly to calculate the service similarity. Finally we provide a novel web services discovery framework named SG^＊ to find the exact services meeting the users＇ goals based on service similarity.

Efficient semantic web service matching using common ontology

To solve the bottleneck problem in centralized service discovery methods,a novel architecture based on domain ontology for semantic service discovery is proposed.This distributed architecture can adjust the domain partition and allocate system resources automatically.The characteristics of this mechanism are analyzed,including scalability,self-organization and adaptability.In this mechanism,semantic web service discovery is separated into two parts.First,under balance tree topology,registry proxy can rapidly forward requests to the objective registry center,and avoid the bottleneck problem.Secondly,a semantic distance based service matching algorithm is proposed to promote the effect of service searching.The results of simulation experiments show that the proposed mechanism can serve as a scalable solution for semantic web service publication and discovery.And the improved matching algorithm has higher recall and precision than other algorithms.

Trustworthy Assurance of Service Interoperation in Cloud Environment

Cloud computing can be realized by service interoperation and its essence is to provide cloud services through network. The development of effective methods to assure the trustworthiness of service interoperation in cloud environment is a very important problem. The essence of cloud security is trust and trust management. Combining quality of service （QoS） with trust model, this paper constructs a QoS-aware and quantitative trust-model that consists of initial trust value, direct trust value, and recommendatory trust value of service, making the provision, discovery, and aggregation of cloud services trustworthy. Hence, it can assure trustworthiness of service interoperation between users and services or among services in cloud environment. At the same time, based on this model, service discovery method based on QoS-aware and quantitative trust-model （TQoS-WSD） is proposed, which makes a solid trust relationship among service requestor, service provider and service recommender, and users can find trustworthy service whose total evaluation value is higher. Corapared to QoS-based service discovery （QoS-WSD） method, it is proved by the experiment for TQoS-WSD method that more accurate result of service discovery will be achieved by service requestor, while reasonable time cost is increased. Meanwhile, TQoS-WSD method strongly resists the effect of service discovery by untrustworthy QoS values and improves service invocation success-rate and thus assures trustworthiness of services interoperation.

Virtual and Dynamic Hierarchical Architecture： an overlay network topology for discovering grid services with high performance

This paper presents an overlay network topology called Virtual and Dynamic Hierarchical Architecture (VDHA) for discovering Grid services with high performance. Service discovery based on VDHA has scalable, autonomous, efficient, reliable and quick responsive. We propose two service discovery algorithms. Full Search Query and Discovery Protocol (FSQDP) discovers the nodes that match the request message from all N nodes, which has time complexity O(logN), space complexity O(nvg) (nvg being node numbers of each virtual group), and message-cost O(N), and Domain-Specific Query and Discovery Protocol (DSQDP) searches nodes in only specific domains with time complexity O(nvg), space complexity O(nvg), and message-cost O(nvg). In this paper, we also describe VDHA, its formal definition, and Grid Group Management Protocol.

Automated Service Search Model for the Social Internet of Things

The social internet of things(SIoT)is one of the emerging paradigms that was proposed to solve the problems of network service discovery,navigability,and service composition.The SIoT aims to socialize the IoT devices and shape the interconnection between them into social interaction just like human beings.In IoT,an object can offer multiple services and different objects can offer the same services with different parameters and interest factors.The proliferation of offered services led to difficulties during service customization and service filtering.This problem is known as service explosion.The selection of suitable service that fits the requirements of applications and objects is a challenging task.To address these issues,we propose an efficient automated query-based service search model based on the local network navigability concept for the SIoT.In the proposed model,objects can use information from their friends or friends of their friends while searching for the desired services,rather than exploring a global network.We employ a centrality metric that computes the degree of importance for each object in the social IoT that helps in selecting neighboring objects with high centrality scores.The distributed nature of our navigation model results in high scalability and short navigation times.We verified the efficacy of our model on a real-world SIoT-related dataset.The experimental results confirm the validity of our model in terms of scalability,navigability,and the desired objects that provide services are determined quickly via the shortest path,which in return improves the service search process in the SIoT.

An Edge-Based Approach for Semantic Matchmaking of Service Capabilities

Semantic Web Services is an emerging technology that promises to enable dynamic, execution-time discovery, composition, and invocation of Web Services. Semantic matchmaking plays a vital role in the automated and dynamic discovery process of Semantic Web Services and consists in measuring the semantic distance between a requested service and an advertised one. In this paper, an innovative approach to effectively compute the semantic distance between Ontology Web Language for Services （OWL-S） annotated services is proposed. First, an edge-based method for measuring the semantic distance between Web Ontology Language （OWL） concepts is presented. Then, a comparison of the proposed measure and the one presented in a recent related work is made in order to show that our method is more efficient and fine-grained. Finally, some equations to compute semantic matchmaking of service capabilities, which are expressed in terms of inputs and outputs, are presented.

A Framework for Multi-Hop Ad-Hoc Networking over Wi-Fi Direct with Android Smart Devices

The wide diffusion of mobile devices that natively support ad hoc communication technologies has led to several protocols for enabling and optimizing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). Nevertheless, the actual utilization of MANETs in real life seems limited due to the lack of protocols for the automatic creation and evolution of ad hoc networks. Recently, a novel P2P protocol named Wi-Fi Direct has been proposed and standardized by the Wi-Fi Alliance to facilitate nearby devices’ interconnection. Wi-Fi Direct provides high-performance direct communication among devices, includes different energy management mechanisms, and is now available in most Android mobile devices. However, the current implementation of Wi-Fi Direct on Android has several limitations, making the Wi-Fi Direct network only be a one-hop ad-hoc network. This paper aims to develop a new framework for multi-hop ad hoc networking using Wi-Fi Direct in Android smart devices. The framework includes a connection establishment protocol and a group management protocol. Simulations validate the proposed framework on the OMNeT++ simulator. We analyzed the framework by varying transmission range, number of hops, and buffer size. The results indicate that the framework provides an eventual 100% packet delivery for different transmission ranges and hop count values. The buffer size has enough space for all packets. However, as buffer size decreases, the packet delivery decreases proportionally.

Context-aware location discovery exchange in a ubiquitous environment

It becomes challenging in order to represent, discover and exchange location information in a ubiquitous environment due to dynamic movement and interaction between mobile nodes inside. In this paper, a new method is presented in order to make location information context-aware so that organizing the format of location information and maintaining the communication between direct connected nodes in a ubiquitous environment is enabled. The structure of a contextual location information repository and a context information communication protocol is manipulated to implement the proposed features. According to the simulation results in network simulator version2 （NS2）, the new method has depicted good discovery success ~nd consumed efficient service discovery bandwidth. Other network traffic, i.e. transmission control protocol, （TCP） has been simulated in the scenarios but the new location-aware method has shown its robustness with continuous context discovery process.

GEOSS Platform data content and use

The GEOSS Platform is a key contribution to the goal of building the Global Earth Observation System of Systems(GEOSS).It enables a harmonized discovery and access of Earth observation data,shared online by heterogeneous organizations worldwide.This work analyzes both what is made available in the GEOSS Platform by the data providers and how users are utilizing it including multiyear trends,updating a previous analysis published in 2017.The present statistics derive from a 2021 EOValue report funded by the European Commission.The offer of GEOSS Platform data has been the object of various analyses,including data provider characterization,data sharing trends,and data characterization(comprising metadata quality analysis,thematic analysis,responsible party identification,spatial–temporal coverage).GEOSS data demand has also been the object of several analyses,including data consumer characterization,utilization trends,and requested data characterization(comprising thematic analysis,spatial–temporal coverage,and popularity).Among thefindings,a large amount of shared data,mostly from satellite sources,emerges with an issue of low metadata quality and related discovery match.Moreover,the trend in usage is decreasing.Therefore,the progressive disconnection of the GEOSS platform from its data Providers and Users and other possible causes are also reported.