Building the Semantic Relations-Based Web Services Registry through Services Mining

Bridging the gap between service consumer and service provider, Web services registry (WSR) plays an important role in the Web services architecture. But the main obstacle in front of service register is short of adequate knowledge. In this paper, we present an approach that combines social networking and semantic Web technology with WSR to facilitate the dynamic Web services composition (WSC) based on AI reasoning and planning approach. Firstly, we clarify the novel WSR, named services network (SN), and present its concepts and components. Secondly, we outline how to build SN through services mining and some of the issues that should be considered. Thirdly, we evaluate how this network style registry could facilitate automated WSC. Lastly, a short comprehensive overview of existing related works is also included.