D10.1v0.1 Focused Crawler for Web Service Discovery

WSMO Working Draft 23 March 2005

This version:

http://www.wsmo.org/TR/d10.1/v0.1/20050323

Latest version:

http://www.wsmo.org/TR/d10.1/v0.1/

Previous version:

http://www.wsmo.org/TR/d10.1/v0.1/20050323

Editor:

David Aiken

Authors:

David Aiken

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1 Problem Definition

1.2 Purpose and Overview of this Document

2. Related Approaches

2.1 Keyword-based Discovery

2.2 Discovery based on simple semantic descriptions of Services

2.3 Discovery based on rich semantic descriptions of Services

3. WSML and Registries

3.1. WSML and UDDI

3.2. WSML and ebXML

4. Approach to Web Service Discovery

4.1. Terminology and Concepts

4.2 Mechanism of Web Service Discovery

5. Architecture

5.1 Focused Crawler within WSMX

5.2 Components

5.3 Requirements on other components within WSMX

6. Implementation

6.1 Google SOAP API

6.2 YARS

6.3 Simulation

6.3.1 A semi-automated approach

6.3.2 GUI

6.4 Evaluation

7. Conclusions and Further Directions

References

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

1.1 Problem Definition

1.2 Purpose and Overview of this Document

7. Conclusions and Further Directions

References

Acknowledgements

The work is funded by the European Commission under the projects DIP, Knowledge Web, Ontoweb, SEKT, and SWWS; by Science Foundation Ireland under the DERI-Lion project; and by the Austrian government under the CoOperate program.

The editors would like to thank all the members of the WSMO working group for their advice and inputs to this document.

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