QoS-Based Collaborative Filtering for Web Service Mining

Abstract

Stored information in the databases is heterogeneous, from various sources, and of large volumes. The web service selection becomes nontrivial, as the users are easily overloaded by vast amount candidates. Using the keyword-based search method, users are struggling to choose the best web services among those having similar features. In the traditional methods, the users set different constraints and QoS parameters of a web service from what's claimed by the provider. Moreover, different researches challenge this problem, introducing semantic discovery process to enable relevant and desired search results. These approaches don't give importance to users' opinions and the selection history. The classical development of the ontology is typically entirely based on high human participation. In this paper, the authors use ontology-based querying, user profile to know the history, new collaborative filtering to calculate user, and query similarity and QoS as the final step for web service selection. The approach combines the syntactic and semantic methods to increase the selection precision.