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Automated Clarification of Constraints in Web Services for Accurate Service Reuse

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Advances in Services Computing (APSCC 2015)

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Service reuse must follow certain constraints in order to correctly interact with Web Services. Violations of constraints can cause fatal errors or incorrect results in the service reuse. However, constraints are often not formally specified and are thus not available in the service reuse. To address this issue, this paper focuses on two common types of such constraints, including location constraints on Web Services and object constraints on simple parameters. An approach is proposed to clarify the two constraints automatically, via a hybrid analysis of heterogeneous information, including the social tags and the service documentations. Then an improved method is presented to identify collaborative relations among Web Services, integrating constraints compatibility into semantic matching. One experiment is carried out on 509 Web Services crawled from the Internet to evaluate the effectiveness of our approach. The other experiment is conducted on the same dataset to assess impacts of the two constraints on service relations. Experimental results show that our approach can clarify the two types of constraints effectively and achieve adequate recall and precision. Moreover, it is indicated that the two types of constraints, especially object constraints, have significant impacts on improving the quality of identified service relations, thus provide a strong guarantee for accurate service reuse.

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    Tiscali Email Services API: available at http://webservices.tiscali.com/EmailServices.asmx.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China grant 61373035, 61173155, the Tianjin Research Program of Application Foundation and Advanced Technology grant 14JCYBJC15600.

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    Xiaocao Hu, Zhiyong Feng, Shizhan Chen & Keman Huang

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Hu, X., Feng, Z., Chen, S., Huang, K. (2015). Automated Clarification of Constraints in Web Services for Accurate Service Reuse. In: Yao, L., Xie, X., Zhang, Q., Yang, L., Zomaya, A., Jin, H. (eds) Advances in Services Computing. APSCC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9464. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26979-5_6

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