A guideline for evaluating semantic web service discovery approaches

Abstract

Currently, most enterprises deploy their services on the Web. This augments the request for tools to discover, select, compose and invoke Web services, effectively and efficiently. Discovery is considered as the foremost and most important step in attracting a vast number of researches. In this paper, a taxonomy of Web service discovery systems is provided. Different points of view are taken into consideration to provide such a taxonomy which covers various existing approaches. With the focus on Semantic Web service discovery, the most prominent approaches of this category are also classified and described. In addition, a comprehensive set of criteria for evaluating Web service discovery approaches are presented. The Semantic Web service discovery approaches are compared with respect to some criteria. The findings of this study can help researchers in both academia and industry in deciding on the criteria that should be used for evaluating the existing Web service discovery approaches or implementing new ones as well as knowing the comparison result of these approaches, in order to select the most appropriate one.