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Item Semantic web service selection based on service provider's business offerings(2009) D’Mello, D.A.; Ananthanarayana, V.S.Semantic Web service discovery finds a match between the service requirement and service advertisements based on the semantic descriptions. The matchmaking mechanism might find semantically similar Web services having same matching score. In this paper, the authors propose the semantic Web service selection mechanism which distinguishes semantically similar Web services based on the Quality of Service (QoS) and Business Offerings (BO). To realize the semantic Web service discovery and selection (ranking), we propose the semantic broker based Web service architecture which recommends the best match for the requester based on the requested functionality, quality and business offerings. The authors design the semantic broker which facilitates the provider to advertise the service by creating OWL-S service profile consisting information related to functionality, quality and business offerings. After the service advertisement, the broker computes and records matchmaking information to improve the performance (service query time) of discovery and selection process. The broker also reads requirements from the requester and finds the best (profitable) Web service by matching and ranking the advertised services based on the functionality, capability, quality and business offering.Item Quality and business offer driven selection of web services for compositions(2009) D’Mello, D.A.; Ananthanarayana, V.S.The service composition makes use of the existing services to produce a new value added service to execute the complex business process. The service discovery finds the suitable services (candidates) for the various tasks of the composition based on the functionality. The service selection in composition assigns the best candidate for each tasks of the pre-structured composition plan based on the non-functional properties. In this paper, we propose the broker based architecture for the QoS and business offer aware Web service compositions. The broker architecture facilitates the registration of a new composite service into three different registries. The broker publishes service information into the service registry and QoS into the QoS registry. The business offers of the composite Web service are published into a separate repository called business offer (BO) registry. The broker employs the mechanism for the optimal assignment of the Web services to the individual tasks of the composition. The assignment is based on the composite service providers's (CSP) variety of requirements defined on the QoS and business offers. The broker also computes the QoS of resulting composition and provides the useful information for the CSP to publish thier business offers. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.Item Dynamic selection mechanism for quality of service aware web services(2010) D’Mello, D.A.; Ananthanarayana, V.S.A web service is an interface of the software component that can be accessed by standard Internet protocols. The web service technology enables an application to application communication and interoperability. The increasing number of web service providers throughout the globe have produced numerous web services providing the same or similar functionality. This necessitates the use of tools and techniques to search the suitable services available over the Web. UDDI (universal description, discovery and integration) is the first initiative to find the suitable web services based on the requester's functional demands. However, the requester's requirements may also include non-functional aspects like quality of service (QoS). In this paper, the authors define a QoS model for QoS aware and business driven web service publishing and selection. The authors propose a QoS requirement format for the requesters, to specify their complex demands on QoS for the web service selection. The authors define a tree structure called quality constraint tree (QCT) to represent the requester's variety of requirements on QoS properties having varied preferences. The paper proposes a QoS broker based architecture for web service selection, which facilitates the requesters to specify their QoS requirements to select qualitatively optimal web service. A web service selection algorithm is presented, which ranks the functionally similar web services based on the degree of satisfaction of the requester's QoS requirements and preferences. The paper deffnes web service provider qualities to distinguish qualitatively competitive web services. The paper also presents the modelling and selection mechanism for the requester's alternative constraints defined on the QoS. The authors implement the QoS broker based system to prove the correctness of the proposed web service selection mechanism. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.Item Dynamic web service composition based on operation flow semantics(2010) D’Mello, D.A.; Ananthanarayana, V.S.Dynamic Web service composition is a process of building a new value added service using available services to satisfy the requester's complex functional need. In this paper we propose the broker based architecture for dynamic Web service composition. The broker plays a major role in effective discovery of Web services for the individual tasks of the complex need. The broker maintains flow knowledge for the composition, which stores the dependency among the Web service operations and their input, output parameters. For the given complex requirements, the broker first generates the abstract composition plan and discovers the possible candidate Web services to each task of the abstract composition plan. The abstract composition plan is further refined based on the Message Exchange Patterns (MEP), Input/Output parameters, QoS of the candidate Web services to produce refined composition plan involving Web service operations with execution flow. The refined composition plan is then transferred to generic service provider to generate executable composition plan based on the requester's input or output requirements and preferences. The proposed effective Web service discovery and composition mechanism is defined based on the concept of functional semantics and flow semantics of Web service operations. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.Item Enhanced lbs discovery in a decentralized registry based web services environment(Rinton Press Inc. sales@rintonpress.com, 2014) D'Souza, M.; Ananthanarayana, V.S.Location Based Services (LBS) is the most happening thing in the mobile industry today. Everybody is trying to generate revenue from location based services. Mobile phone manufacturers are developing new smart phones every day and network providers are offering high speed data connections. Several LBS providers and applications are available in the market but the major problem is service provider dependency. This paper gives an overview of a decentralized registry based architecture using web services technology which facilitates dynamic discovery, interoperability and provider independence. The web services technology uses UDDI registry service for publishing and discovering services but the discovery results obtained are not reliable as the service discovery considers only static service description. This paper contributes to enhancing LBS discovery by considering service dynamics and expanding LBS discovery process to neighboring locations. © Rinton Press.Item A bio-inspired, incremental clustering algorithm for semantics-based web service discovery(Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2015) Kamath S?, S.; Ananthanarayana, V.S.Web service discovery is a challenging task due to the widespread availability of published services on the web. In this paper, a service crawler-based web service discovery framework is proposed, that employs information retrieval techniques to effectively retrieve available, published service descriptions. Their functional semantics is extracted for similarity computation and tag generation using natural language processing techniques. The framework is inherently dynamic in nature as new service descriptions may be continually added during periodic crawler runs or existing ones may be removed if service is unavailable. To deal with these issues, a dynamic, incremental clustering approach based on bird flocking behaviour is proposed. Experimental results show that semantic analysis and automatic tagging captured the services' functional semantics in a meaningful way. The algorithm effectively handled the dynamic requirements of the proposed framework by eliminating cluster recomputation overhead and achieved a speed-up factor of 61.8% when compared to hierarchical clustering. © 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.Item Semantic similarity based context-aware web service discovery using NLP techniques(Rinton Press Inc. sales@rintonpress.com, 2016) Kamath S?, S.S.; Ananthanarayana, V.S.Due to the high availability and also the distributed nature of published web services on the Web, efficient discovery and retrieval of relevant services that meet user requirements can be a challenging task. In this paper, we present a semantics based web service retrieval framework that uses natural language processing techniques to extract a service’s functional information. The extracted information is used to compute the similarity between any given service pair, for generating additional metadata for each service and for classifying the services based on their functional similarity. The framework also adds natural language querying capabilities for supporting exact and approximate matching of relevant services to a given user query. We present experimental results that show that the semantic analysis & automatic tagging effectively captured the inherent functional details of a service and also the similarity between different services. Also, a significant improvement in precision and recall was observed during Web service retrieval when compared to simple keyword matching search, using the natural language querying interface provided by the proposed framework. © Rinton Press.Item Semantics-based Web service classification using morphological analysis and ensemble learning techniques(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2016) Kamath S?, S.S.; Ananthanarayana, V.S.With the emergence of the Programmable Web paradigm, the World Wide Web is evolving into a Web of Services, where data and services can be effectively reused across applications. Given the wide diversity and scale of published Web services, the problem of service discovery is a big challenge for service-based application development. This is further compounded by the limited availability of intelligent categorization and service management frameworks. In this paper, an approach that extends service similarity analysis by using morphological analysis and machine learning techniques for capturing the functional semantics of real-world Web services for facilitating effective categorization is presented. To capture the functional diversity of the services, different feature vector selection techniques are used to represent a service in vector space, with the aim of finding the optimal set of features. Using these feature vector models, services are classified as per their domain, using ensemble machine learning methods. Experiments were performed to validate the classification accuracy with respect to the various service feature vector models designed, and the results emphasize the effectiveness of the proposed approach. © 2016, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.Item Discovering composable web services using functional semantics and service dependencies based on natural language requests(Springer New York LLC barbara.b.bertram@gsk.com, 2019) Kamath S?, S.; Ananthanarayana, V.S.The processes of service discovery, selection and composition are crucial tasks in web service based application development. Most web service-driven applications are complex and are composed of more than one service, so, it becomes important for application designers to identify the best service to perform the next task in the intended application’s workflow. In this paper, a framework for discovering composable service sets as per user’s complex requirements is proposed. The proposed approach uses natural language processing and semantics based techniques to extract the functional semantics of the service dataset and also to understand user context. In case of simple queries, basic services may be enough to satisfy the user request, however, in case of complex queries, several basic services may have to be identified to serve all the requirements, in the correct sequence. For this, the service dependencies of all the services are used for constructing a service interface graph for finding suitable composable services. Experiments showed that the proposed approach was effective towards finding relevant services for simple & complex queries and achieved an average accuracy rate of 75.09 % in finding correct composable service templates. © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York.