Service Mining on the Web

(TRANSACTIONS, 2009)
Abstract:
The web of data may contain both semantic data (static content) and services (dynamic
content). These services increase the opportunities to compose potentially interesting and useful
services from existing services. Sometimes we may not have the specific queries needed in top-
down service composition approaches to identify them in large body of Web services. In order to
improve the proactive exposure of these opportunities, we need to use the web service mining
framework that allows unexpected and interesting service compositions to automatically emerge
in a bottom-up fashion. We also present evaluation measures of their interestingness and
usefulness.

The top-down approach requires a user to provide a goal containing specific search
criteria defining the exact service functionality the user expects. The top-down approach can thus
work well only if the service composer clearly knows what to look for and the component Web
services needed to compose such services are available. Aiming at exploring the full potential of
the service space without prior knowledge of what exactly is in it, another view that approaches
service composition from the bottom-up is build up.

Technologies:
1. Java 1.5, J2EE (Web services, JDBC)
2. Oracle 8i
3. Apache Tomcat5.5.23 (Web server)
4. Apache Axis Framework (Web Services framework)

Software Requirements:

1. Windows/ Linux

2. Java/C++ & Perl

Hardware Requirements:

Processor: 1.2GHz above

RAM: 1GB

HDD: 40GB or above