WSSM: A WordNet-Based Web Services Similarity Mining Mechanism

One of the challenging issues in web service research is to efficiently find appropriate services from large volumes of existing services. In this paper, we propose a WordNet-based Web service similarity mining mechanism called WSSM to address this issue. WSSM can effectively cluster services into different categories so as to reduce the searching space. As a result, it improves service discovery efficiency greatly. Finally, based on the Web services collected from online service repositories, we conduct extensive experiments to study the performance of our implementation.