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Ranking BPEL Processes for Service Discovery
July-September 2010 (vol. 3 no. 3)
pp. 178-192
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Daniela Grigori, Juan Carlos Corrales, Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Ahmed Gater, "Ranking BPEL Processes for Service Discovery," IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 178-192, July-September, 2010.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TSC.2010.6,
author = {Daniela Grigori and Juan Carlos Corrales and Mokrane Bouzeghoub and Ahmed Gater},
title = {Ranking BPEL Processes for Service Discovery},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Services Computing},
volume = {3},
number = {3},
issn = {1939-1374},
year = {2010},
pages = {178-192},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TSC.2010.6},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
TI - Ranking BPEL Processes for Service Discovery
IS - 3
SN - 1939-1374
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EPD - 178-192
A1 - Daniela Grigori,
A1 - Juan Carlos Corrales,
A1 - Mokrane Bouzeghoub,
A1 - Ahmed Gater,
PY - 2010
KW - Web services
KW - services retrieval
KW - behavioral matching
KW - BPEL processes ranking.
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JA - IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
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Daniela Grigori, University of Versailles-St-Quentin-En-Yvelines, Versailles
Juan Carlos Corrales, University of Cauca, Popayan-Cauca
Mokrane Bouzeghoub, University of Versailles-St-Quentin-En-Yvelines, Versailles
Ahmed Gater, University of Versailles, Versailles
Finding useful services is a challenging and important task in several applications. Current approaches for services retrieval are mostly limited to the matching of their inputs/outputs. In this paper, we argue that in several applications (services having multiple and dependent operations and scientific workflows), the service discovery should be based on the specification of service behavior. The idea behind is to develop matching techniques that operate on behavior models and allow delivery of approximate matches and evaluation of semantic distance between these matches and the user requirements. To do so, we reduce the problem of behavioral matching to a graph matching problem and adapt existing algorithms for this purpose. To validate our approach, we developed a BPEL ranking platform that allows to find in a service repository, a set of service candidates satisfying user requirements, and then, to rank these candidates using a behavioral-based similarity measure.

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Index Terms:
Web services, services retrieval, behavioral matching, BPEL processes ranking.
Citation:
Daniela Grigori, Juan Carlos Corrales, Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Ahmed Gater, "Ranking BPEL Processes for Service Discovery," IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 178-192, July-Sept. 2010, doi:10.1109/TSC.2010.6
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