Title
Probabilistic Matchmaking Methods for Automated Service Discovery
Abstract
Automated service discovery enables human users or software agents to form queries and to search and discover the services based on different requirements. This enables implementation of high-level functionalities such as service recommendation, composition, and provisioning. The current service search and discovery on the Web is mainly supported by text and keyword-based solutions which offer very limited semantic expressiveness to service developers and consumers. This paper presents a method using probabilistic machine-learning techniques to extract latent factors from semantically enriched service descriptions. The latent factors are used to construct a model to represent different types of service descriptions in a vector form. With this transformation, heterogeneous service descriptions can be represented, discovered, and compared on the same homogeneous plane. The proposed solution is scalable to large service datasets and provides an efficient mechanism that enables publishing and adding new services to the registry and representing them using latent factors after deployment of the system. We have evaluated our solution against logic-based and keyword-based service search and discovery solutions. The results show that the proposed method performs better than other solutions in terms of precision and normalized discounted cumulative gain values.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/TSC.2013.28
Services Computing, IEEE Transactions
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Web services,data mining,learning (artificial intelligence),probability,Web,automated service discovery,keyword-based service search,logic-based service search,probabilistic machine learning techniques,probabilistic matchmaking methods,semantic expressiveness,service composition,service descriptions,service provisioning,service recommendation,Computer web services,LDA,discovery,machine-learning,probabilistic methods
Journal
7
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1939-1374
26
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.87
24
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cassar, G.1281.22
Payam M. Barnaghi2281.28
K. Moessner314423.09