A model to predict quality of a reduced ontology for Web service discovery on mobile devices

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-216
Author(s):  
Dan Schrimpsher ◽  
Letha Etzkorn
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Service Discovery ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Support Service ◽  
Knowledge Content ◽  
And Performance

AbstractAs Web Services and the Semantic Web become more important, enabling technologies such as Web service ontologies will grow larger. At the same time, use of mobile devices to access Web services has doubled in the last year. The ability of these resource-constrained devices to download and reason across ontologies to support service discovery are severely limited. Since concrete agents typically only needs a subset of what is described in a Web service ontology to complete their task, a reduced ontology can be created. Measuring the quality of a reduced ontology, in both knowledge content and performance, is a nontrivial task. Expert analysis of the ontologies is time-consuming and unreliable. We propose two measures of knowledge content and performance. Mean average recall (MAR) with respect to the original ontology compares the data returned from a series of queries related to a particular concept of interest. Mean average performance (MAP) compares the download and reasoning speedup of the reduced ontology with respect to the original ontology. Neither of these values can be computed easily, therefore we propose a set of ontology metrics to predict these values. In this paper, we develop two prediction models for MAR and MAP based on these metrics. These models are based on analysis of 23 ontologies from five domains. To compute MAR, a specific set of queries for each domain was applied to each candidate reduced ontology along with the original ontology. To compute MAP, a simulated mobile device will download and process of each ontology along with the original ontology. We believe this model allows a speedy selection of a reduced ontology that contains the knowledge content and performance speedup needed by a mobile device for service discovery.

scholarly journals QoS Measurement of Workflow-Based Web Service Compositions Using Colored Petri Net

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hossein Nematzadeh ◽  
Homayun Motameni ◽  
Radziah Mohamad ◽  
Zahra Nematzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Petri Net ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Colored Petri Net ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Business Process Execution ◽  
And Performance

Workflow-based web service compositions (WB-WSCs) is one of the main composition categories in service oriented architecture (SOA). Eflow, polymorphic process model (PPM), and business process execution language (BPEL) are the main techniques of the category of WB-WSCs. Due to maturity of web services, measuring the quality of composite web services being developed by different techniques becomes one of the most important challenges in today’s web environments. Business should try to provide good quality regarding the customers’ requirements to a composed web service. Thus, quality of service (QoS) which refers to nonfunctional parameters is important to be measured since the quality degree of a certain web service composition could be achieved. This paper tried to find a deterministic analytical method for dependability and performance measurement using Colored Petri net (CPN) with explicit routing constructs and application of theory of probability. A computer tool called WSET was also developed for modeling and supporting QoS measurement through simulation.

scholarly journals A Study on Knowledge Discovery of Relevant Web Services with Semantic and Syntactic approaches

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-11
Author(s):  
Mrs. M. Akila Rani ◽  
Dr. D. Shanthi
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Service Discovery ◽  
Web Mining ◽  
Support Service ◽  
Service Description ◽  
Web Service Discovery ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
High Flexibility ◽  
The Web

Web mining is the application of data mining techniques to discover patterns from the Web. Web services defines set of standards like WSDL(Web Service Description Language), SOAP(Simple Object Access Protocol) and UDDI(Universal Description Discovery and Integration) to support service description, discovery and invocation in a uniform interchangeable format between heterogeneous applications. Due to huge number of Web services and short content of WSDL description, the identification of correct Web services becomes a time consuming process and retrieves a vast amount of irrelevant Web services. This emerges the need for the efficient Web service mining framework for Web service discovery. Discovery involves matching, assessment and selection. Various complex relationships may provide incompatibility in delivering and identifying efficient Web services. As a result the web service requester did not attain the exact useful services. A research has emerged to develop method to improve the accuracy of Web service discovery to match the best services. In the discovery of Web services there are two approaches are available namely Semantic based approach and Syntactic based approach. Semantic based approach gives high accuracy than Syntactic approach but it takes high processing time. Syntactic based approach has high flexibility. Thus, this paper presents a survey of semantic based and syntactic based approaches of Web service discovery system and it proposed a novel approach which has better accuracy and good flexibility than existing one. Finally, it compares the existing approaches in web service discovery.

Semantic Web Services Discovery

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randa Hammami ◽  
Hatem Bellaaj ◽  
Ahmed Hadj Kacem
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Traditional Method ◽  
Service Discovery ◽  
Semantic Web Services ◽  
Web Service Discovery ◽  
User Request ◽  
Semantic Web Service Discovery

This article describes how Web services play an important role in several fields such as e-commerce and e-health. As the number of Web services is increasing rapidly, finding the best Web service according to users' requirements becomes more challenging. The traditional method of Web service discovery is based on keyword match. Due to this, many Web services which are most relevant to the user request are left undiscoverable. Some other emergent approaches are based on semantics to improve the quality of the discovered Web services in terms of relevance and satisfaction of user's need. In this paper, the authors present a survey of existing semantic Web services discovery approaches giving priority to relevant ones. Furthermore, this paper provides a critical and comparative analysis of the studied approaches and stands out major challenges to be addressed to substantially enhance the semantic Web service discovery.

scholarly journals A Cluster-Based Web Service Discovery in MANET Environments

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeon-Seok Kim ◽  
Yoo-Seok Shim ◽  
Kyong-Ho Lee
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Service Discovery ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Heterogeneous Platforms ◽  
Web Service Discovery ◽  
Stable Clusters ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Development Paradigm

As standard technologies to implement a service-oriented architecture, Web services support interoperability between heterogeneous platforms. In the ubiquitous era, for Web services to become a universal software development paradigm, they must be able to support a MANET environment with a variety of mobile devices. In this paper, we propose an efficient method that discovers services in MANET environments, where mobile devices are free to move independently. The proposed method constructs stable clusters based on the mobility of devices. It also selects an appropriate service discovery scheme for a cluster depending on its characteristics. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms previous methods, and discovers services based on the features of a cluster.

Web Service Discovery for Cloud-Based Mobile Application Using Multi-Level Clustering and QoS-Based Ranking

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (07) ◽  
pp. 1077-1097
Author(s):  
R. Kanesaraj Ramasamy ◽  
Fang-Fang Chua ◽  
Su-Cheng Haw ◽  
Chin-Kuan Ho
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Service Discovery ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Web Service Discovery ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Searching Performance

Since many service providers are providing similar web services, finding an accurate web service based on user preferences is becoming a challenging task. Therefore, enhancing web service discovery (WSD) method will improve the searching performance. In this paper, we firstly discuss and review some existing web service discovery approaches and identify their limitations. Subsequently, we propose a web service discovery method for cloud-based mobile application by using multi-level clustering technique to improve performance by reducing the searching scope. Our web service discovery architecture is able to increase the discoverability of more accurate web services based on user's preferences. Meanwhile, user preference Quality of Services (QoS) attributes are also used for ranking procedure to allow user to decide the quality of the mobile application. The experimental results show that our approach is able to increase the searching performance and provide a reliable list of selection for users.

Web Services Architecture Model to Support Distributed Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sawsan Ali Hamid ◽  
Rana Alauldeen Abdalrahman ◽  
Inam Abdullah Lafta ◽  
Israa Al Barazanchi
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Distributed System ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Service Description ◽  
Architecture Model ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Evolving Model ◽  
The Web

Recently, web services have presented a new and evolving model for constructing the distributed system. The meteoric growth of the Web over the last few years proves the efficacy of using simple protocols over the Internet as the basis for a large number of web services and applications. Web service is a modern technology of web, which can be defined as software applications with a programmatic interface based on Internet protocol. Web services became common in the applications of the web by the help of Universal, Description, Discovery and Integration; Web Service Description Language and Simple Object Access Protocol. The architecture of web services refers to a collection of conceptual components in which common sets of standard can be defined among interoperating components. Nevertheless, the existing Web service's architecture is not impervious to some challenges, such as security problems, and the quality of services. Against this backdrop, the present study will provide an overview of these issues. Therefore, it aims to propose web services architecture model to support distributed system in terms of application and issues.

PROCESS MODEL ONTOLOGY-BASED MATCHMAKING OF SEMANTIC WEB SERVICES

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (04) ◽  
pp. 357-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. PAULRAJ ◽  
S. SWAMYNATHAN ◽  
M. MADHAIYAN
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Service Discovery ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Semantic Web Services ◽  
Functional Part ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Concise Description

One of the key challenges of the Service Oriented Architecture is the discovery of relevant services for a given task. In Semantic Web Services, service discovery is generally achieved by using the service profile ontology of OWL-S. Profile of a service is a derived, concise description and not a functional part of the semantic web service. There is no schema present in the service profile to describe the input, output (IO), and the IOs in the service profile are not always annotated with ontology concepts, whereas the process model has such a schema to describe the IOs which are always annotated with ontology concepts. In this paper, we propose a complementary sophisticated matchmaking approach which uses the concrete process model ontology of OWL-S instead of the concise service profile ontology. Empirical analysis shows that high precision and recall can be achieved by using the process model-based service discovery.

Multi-criteria Web Services Selection: Balancing the Quality of Design and Quality of Service

2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Marwa Daaji ◽  
Ali Ouni ◽  
Mohamed Mohsen Gammoudi ◽  
Salah Bouktif ◽  
Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Service Selection ◽  
Service Design ◽  
Design Quality ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Selection Approach

Web service composition allows developers to create applications via reusing available services that are interoperable to each other. The process of selecting relevant Web services for a composite service satisfying the developer requirements is commonly acknowledged to be hard and challenging, especially with the exponentially increasing number of available Web services on the Internet. The majority of existing approaches on Web Services Selection are merely based on the Quality of Service (QoS) as a basic criterion to guide the selection process. However, existing approaches tend to ignore the service design quality, which plays a crucial role in discovering, understanding, and reusing service functionalities. Indeed, poorly designed Web service interfaces result in service anti-patterns, which are symptoms of bad design and implementation practices. The existence of anti-pattern instances in Web service interfaces typically complicates their reuse in real-world service-based systems and may lead to several maintenance and evolution problems. To address this issue, we introduce a new approach based on the Multi-Objective and Optimization on the basis of Ratio Analysis method (MOORA) as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method to select Web services based on a combination of their (1) QoS attributes and (2) QoS design. The proposed approach aims to help developers to maintain the soundness and quality of their service composite development processes. We conduct a quantitative and qualitative empirical study to evaluate our approach on a Quality of Web Service dataset. We compare our MOORA-based approach against four commonly used MCDM methods as well as a recent state-of-the-art Web service selection approach. The obtained results show that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art approaches by significantly improving the service selection quality of top- k selected services while providing the best trade-off between both service design quality and desired QoS values. Furthermore, we conducted a qualitative evaluation with developers. The obtained results provide evidence that our approach generates a good trade-off for what developers need regarding both QoS and quality of design. Our selection approach was evaluated as “relevant” from developers point of view, in improving the service selection task with an average score of 3.93, compared to an average of 2.62 for the traditional QoS-based approach.

scholarly journals The Influence of the Frequency of the Internet Use on the Behavioral Relationship Model of the Mobile Device-Based Shopping

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shwu-Ing Wu ◽  
Rou Jyun Chen
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Relationship Model ◽  
Significant Positive Influence

<p class="ArticleTitle">In recent years, the increasingly innovative and diverse mobile devices have significantly promoted the mobile device-based shopping. What factors influence this kind of shopping? Will consumers purchase things with mobile devices? These are two topics that need to be explored. Through the literature analysis and the empirical research, this study aims to analyze the quality of information, system, service and mobile devices on the mobile device-based shopping platform. Moreover, it studies the attitude of consumers towards mobile device-based shopping, their willingness to adopt the shopping method and the behavioral relationship model in the actual mobile device-based shopping as well as compares the groups of different frequencies of the Internet use in terms of the relationship model.</p>　　With the convenient sampling, this study made an investigation among some of those who had experienced shopping on such mobile devices as tablets or smart phones. The 765 retrieved valid copies of questionnaire were divided into three groups—“often”, “average” and “seldom” according to the frequency consumers undertook mobile device-based shopping and were then compared. The results showed that there were significant differences among the three groups in four relationship paths, including: 1) the information quality of the mobile device-based shopping platform has more significant positive influence on consumers’ attitude path of mobile device-based shopping in the “average” group than in the other two; 2) the service quality of the mobile device-based shopping platform has more significant positive influence on consumers’ attitude path of mobile device-based shopping in the “seldom” group than in the other two; 3) the preference for mobile device-based shopping has much significant positive influence on the behavior path of mobile device-based shopping in the “often” group. According to the research results, different groups have different behavior models. These results can serve as reference information in the decision-making of those who establish mobile device-based shopping platforms and manufacture mobile devices.

A QoS-aware approach for runtime discovery, selection and composition of semantic web services

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjay Garg ◽  
Kirit Modi ◽  
Sanjay Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Web Service ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Service Discovery ◽  
Semantic Web Services ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Semantic Description ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Web

Purpose Web services play vital role in the development of emerging technologies such as Cloud computing and Internet of Things. Although, there is a close relationship among the discovery, selection and composition tasks of Web services, research community has treated these challenges at individual level rather to focus on them collectively for developing efficient solution, which is the purpose of this work. This paper aims to propose an approach to integrate the service discovery, selection and composition of Semantic Web services on runtime basis. Design/methodology/approach The proposed approach defined as a quality of service (QoS)-aware approach is based on QoS model to perform discovery, selection and composition tasks at runtime to enhance the user satisfaction and quality guarantee by incorporating non-functional parameters such as response time and throughput with the Web services and user request. In this paper, the proposed approach is based on ontology for semantic description of Web services, which provides interoperability and automation in the Web services tasks. Findings This work proposed an integrated framework of Web service discovery, selection and composition which supports end user to search, select and compose the Web services at runtime using semantic description and non-functional requirements. The proposed approach is evaluated by various data sets from the Web Service Challenge 2009 (WSC-2009) to show the efficiency of this work. A use case scenario of Healthcare Information System is implemented using proposed work to demonstrate the usability and requirement the proposed approach. Originality/value The main contribution of this paper is to develop an integrated approach of Semantic Web services discovery, selection and composition by using the non-functional requirements.

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