User's preferences and experiences based web service discovery using ontologies

• Published in: 2010 Fourth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS) pp. 121 - 126
• Main Authors: Benaboud, Rohallah, Maamri, Ramdane, Sahnoun, Zaidi
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-05-2010
• Subjects: Application software; customer's preferences; discovery; Explosions; Laboratories; Multi agent systems; Ontologies; Proposals; Quality of service; Service oriented architecture; Simple object access protocol; Software agents; Web services
• ISBN: 9781424448395; 1424448395
• ISSN: 2151-1349; 2151-1357
• DOI: 10.1109/RCIS.2010.5507371

The lack of semantic parts, increasing number of web services in the web, and inefficient discovery mechanisms are the main problems of current web service technologies. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to enhance web services discovery based on, among others, customer's preferences and past experiences. In our approach, ontologies are used to describe web services, QoS, customer's preferences and experiences. We develop an efficient semantic service matching which takes into account customer's preferences to calculation the similarity degree between customer request description and web service description.