Enriching Web Services Tags to Improve Data-Driven Web Services Composition

Authors

  • Nahid Dara Diabetes Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran; Department of Computer Engineering, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9041-5108
  • Sima Emadi Department of Computer Engineering, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8387-3904

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jwe1540-9589.2025

Keywords:

Service composition, clustering, enrichment tag, data-driven, web service, WSDL

Abstract

Due to the large number of existing services and complexity of manual composition, automatic service composition is provided to enable automatic search of the service compositions for the given queries. Many solutions for automatic service composition have been developed, including integer programming, graph planning, artificial intelligence, and so on in this paper, a heuristic method is proposed to improve the data-driven composition of web services by enriching tags based on tags semantic. To do so, firstly, useful information on web services is collected from various sources and is turned into collections of tags. In the next step, using the hierarchical clustering algorithm, the tags are clustered based on semantic similarity. Thereafter, for services which do not have enough tags, enrichment of the tag is carried out and finally, using an algorithm, composition solutions based on QoS parameters are extracted, which can formulate user targets or even provide potential compositions. Moreover, a series of tests were conducted on the web services, which validate the efficiency of the proposed approach. The experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed service composition method and high quality of tag enriching strategies.

  

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Author Biographies

Nahid Dara, Diabetes Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran; Department of Computer Engineering, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran

Nahid Dara is a master of science in software engineering. She received the B.S degree from Yazd university in 2006 and M.S degree from Islamic Azad University of Yazd in 2016. She is a software engineer in Yazd Diabetes research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of medical sciences from 2007. Her research interests include software engineering and data mining and database.

Sima Emadi, Department of Computer Engineering, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran

Sima Emadi is an Assistant Professor and Director of Computer postgraduate at Computer Engineering Department, Islamic Azad University, Yazd Branch. He received the B.Eng. degree from Islamic Azad University, Iran, in 1995 and the M.S. degree from Islamic Azad University, Iran, in 1997, both in Computer Software engineering. In 2008 she completed the Ph.D. program at Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Iran. Her current research interests include services computing Software, Web service Composition, Service Driven Architecture, Software Testing and Design Pattern.

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Published

2021-03-16

How to Cite

Dara, N., & Emadi, S. (2021). Enriching Web Services Tags to Improve Data-Driven Web Services Composition. Journal of Web Engineering, 20(2), 327–358. https://doi.org/10.13052/jwe1540-9589.2025

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