A bottom-up approach towards achieving semantic web services

Abstract

With the advent of Service-oriented Architecture, Web Services have already become the preferred way of integrating multi-platform, cross-vendor business applications. However, due to the steadily increasing number of published services on the Web, discovery of the most relevant Web services as per the stated requirements is very challenging. Due to this explosive growth of Web data and services, there is a significant need for streamlining the process of service discovery to provide better matching, composition and integration capabilities without human intervention. The proposed Semantic Web approach aims to address these issues by the inclusion of explicit semantics in service descriptions. However, it is still far from realization and the fact remains that it is complex to develop a semantic Web service from the ground-up. In this paper, we propose a framework that uses a bottom-up approach for building semantic Web services from existing service descriptions on the Web, thus reducing the time and cost involved in large scale manual annotation. � 2013 IEEE.