Evaluating the similarity of web service policies using flexible parameter matching

Abstract

Non-functional properties play an important role in all web service related tasks, especially in selection and composition of services. To select a service according to the user business policies, it is necessary to find a mechanism for matching the user business policies with the web service policies. To do this, exploiting semantic matching is effective. Therefore in this work, we present an algorithm for evaluating the similarity of web service business policies based on measurable quality attributes and semantic matching approach. We will display the web service policy as semantic tree and semantic concepts by web ontology language (OWL), and rules by semantic web rule language (SWRL) in policy matching. The proposed semantic matching for evaluating the similarity of web service policies can be effective to solve problems such as choice of services, service composition, and service-oriented systems matching.