One of the key requirements for the success of Service Oriented Architecture is discoverability of Web services. Unfortunately, application of authoritatively defined taxonomies cannot cope with the volume of services published on the Web. Collaborative tagging claims to address this problem, but is impeded by the lack of structure to describe Web service functions and interfaces. In this paper we introduce structured collaborative tagging to improve Web service descriptions. Performance of the proposed technique obtained during the Cross-Evaluation track of the Semantic Service Selection 2009 contest is reported. Obtained results show that the proposed approach can be successfully used in both Web service tagging and querying.
WSColab REF introduces the concept of structured collaborative tagging in the context of web service matchmaking.
WSCOLAB: STRUCTURED COLLABORATIVE TAGGING FOR WEB SERVICE MATCHMAKING
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Computer Science