A Method for Context-aware Web Services Selection

Abstract

Service-oriented computing (SOC) is emerging as a new, promising computing paradigm that centers on the notion of service as the fundamental element for developing software applications. Traditional service selection deals with applications which only consider functional matchmaking of services and do not put them into a context when selecting services. When recognizing the importance of contextual information, in this paper we mainly focus on the precise and effective context-aware service selection. At first we proposed a General Context Model (GCM) for service selection. After the construction of GCM, we gave a framework for context-aware service selection and discussed the method of service selection based on context and function. The experimental result shows that our method performs better than the methods without consideration of context.