Service Selection via Extreme Geotagging

Location of services plays an important role in the process of service selection. Geotagging emerged as a technique for attaching location information to Web elements, including Web services. In this context, this paper proposes a Web service selection framework based on geotagging. First, we introduce tagging and geotagging as an operation that emphasizes processes and the dynamic aspects of the environment. Then, we propose a conceptual model that defines a set of relations between tags. Furthermore, we develop a service selection technique based on this model and give an example of service selection. An overview of a system that implements geotagging-based service selection is presented at the end.