This paper describes a framework for ontology-based flexible discovery of Semantic Web
services. The proposed approach relies on user-supplied, context-specific mappings from …

Efficient and scalable discovery mechanisms are critical for enabling service-oriented
architectures on the Semantic Web. The majority of currently existing approaches focuses on …

Abstract Service-oriented architectures, and notably Web Services, are becoming an
incontrovertible paradigm for the development of applications in pervasive computing …

Creating novel functionality by means of the composition of existing web services is
essential for a variety of applications. One of the main problems for automated web service …

Semantic Web services envision the automated discovery and selection of Web services.
This can be realised by adding semantic information to advertised services and service …

Discovering web services is the process of finding web services that satisfy specific
requirements. Rich and formal representations of services and interactions are required for …

Abstract Service orientation is a promising paradigm for offering and consuming
functionalities within and across organizations. Ever increasing acceptance of service …

This paper presents an approach for ranking semantic Web service advertisements with
respect to a service request. The use of recall and precision is proposed as suitable …

With the increasing growth in popularity of Web services, discovery of relevant Web services
becomes a significant challenge. One approach is to develop semantic Web services where …

State-of-the-art discovery of Semantic Web services is based on hybrid algorithms that
combine semantic and syntactic matchmaking. These approaches are purely based on …