QOS Aware Formalized Model for Semantic Web Service Selection

Abstract

Selecting the most relevant Web Service according to a client requirement is an onerous task, as innumerous number of functionally same Web Services(WS) are listed in UDDI registry.WS are functionally same but their Quality and performance varies as per service providers.A web Service Selection Process involves two major points: Recommending the pertinent Web Service and avoiding unjustifiable web service.The deficiency in keyword based searching is that it doesn't handle the client request accurately as keyword may have ambiguous meaning on different scenarios.UDDI and search engines all are based on keyword search, which are lagging behind on pertinent Web service selection.So the search mechanism must be incorporated with the Semantic behavior of Web Services.In order to strengthen this approach, the proposed model is incorporated with Quality of Services (QoS) based Ranking of semantic web services.This paper focuses on various concepts of Quality of Service associated with web services.Various QoS parameters like performance, availability, reliability and stability etc. are formalized in order to enhance the pertinence of web service selection.A QoS mediator agent based Web Service Selection Model is proposed where QoS Consultant acts as a Mediator Agent between clients and service providers.Model suggests user's preferences on QoS parameter selection.The proposed model helps to select pertinent Web Service as per user's requirement and reduce the human effort.. Further process of adding ontology with semantic web services is also illustrated here.