Semantic Web services discovery and ranking

The World Wide Web is evolving from a huge information repository to a service oriented marketplace. Web service is becoming the next generation of Web based application. Due to the dramatic increasing number of available Web services, how to locate the right services is a big challenge. In this paper, a new approach is proposed for Web services matching within the UDDI registry, based on the matching results a ranking process significantly reduce the number of recommend services and increase the accuracy. This process is based on semantics in domain ontology. The whole solution provides a novel way to discover and utilize published Web services. It is flexible and extensible to accomplish complex Web service requests.