WGSDMM+GA: A genetic algorithm-based service clustering methodology assimilating dirichlet multinomial mixture model with word embedding

Abstract

Advancement of web 2.0 results in the expeditious growth of services in repositories and service portals, which raises the demand for service management. With the clusters of services, different processes like discovery, selection, ranking, etc., can be expedited efficiently. K-Means clustering is highly recommended for service clustering but it can be stuck in the local optimum values. Developers generally use short text to describe the functionality of Web services. For effective service clustering, it is required that relevant features of services are mapped in vector space based on semantic relations. Gibbs Sampling algorithm for Dirichlet Multinomial Mixture model (GSDMM) model is able to provide good performance on short text because it works on the assumption that there will be one topic related to one document. In this paper, a novel technique for web service clustering, i.e., WGSDMM+GA, is proposed in which relevant features, semantic relations, and their mappings in vector space are analyzed based on an assimilated approach of Word2Vec and GSDMM models. As K-means clustering cannot provide effective results due to local optima problem, GA-based clustering is applied in which fitness function is based on Manhattan distance. The proposed model is applied to five real-time datasets, and the performance is evaluated based on standard evaluation measures. Experimental results illustrate that WGSDMM+GA yields better results, and the accuracy score is increased by 23%, 17%,17%, 21%, and 25% on five real-time datasets.