Title : 
WSSM: A WordNet-Based Web Services Similarity Mining Mechanism
         
        
            Author : 
Qu, Xianyang ; Sun, Hailong ; Li, Xiang ; Liu, Xudong ; Lin, Wei
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Beihang Univ., Beijing, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
One of the challenging issues in web service research is to efficiently find appropriate services from large volumes of existing services. In this paper, we propose a WordNet-based Web service similarity mining mechanism called WSSM to address this issue. WSSM can effectively cluster services into different categories so as to reduce the searching space. As a result, it improves service discovery efficiency greatly. Finally, based on the Web services collected from online service repositories, we conduct extensive experiments to study the performance of our implementation.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Web services; data mining; WordNet based Web services; online service repository; service discovery; similarity mining mechanism; Decision support systems; Helium; Virtual reality; Web services; data mining; service discovery; similarity; web service;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Future Computing, Service Computation, Cognitive, Adaptive, Content, Patterns, 2009. COMPUTATIONWORLD '09. Computation World:
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Athens
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-5166-1
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-0-7695-3862-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ComputationWorld.2009.96