Semantics and OWL in UDDI Registry: Improving the Discovery Process of Web Services

Abstract

The discovery process of web services becomes a problem in terms of finding the most appropriate service in that huge set of various items published throughout the web. In this paper we will describe some of the existing mechanisms, which come as proposals for improving the discovery process of web services. By using one of these approaches, we will propose a semantic-based architecture, composed of many collaborating elements and then we will show a part of the implementation of the matching algorithm, between the user request and the published services. This matching is based on the ontological description of services and will be done by using the owl semantic specification. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2014.v3n1p341