Thesis of Uddam Chukmol


Subject:
Matching techniques for efficient reuse of Web services: discovery and service's quality

Abandoned thesis: 15/12/2011

Advisor: Youssef Amghar
Coadvisor: Nabila Benharkat

Summary:

The proliferation of Web services generates more issues related to the interoperability in service oriented information systems in terms of discovery, efficient reuse and quality of Web services. These services evolve analogically to autonomous software components in different applications. Within this context, the matching is mandatory and present in different phases of the service oriented applications development cycle: in the service discovery process for computing the similarity between a user's request and a set of available Web services, in the service reuse for assessing the reusability of a service given a user's requirement and in the service evolution follow-up for tracking the difference between two versions of published Web services. Aware of the absence of a complete platform allowing to deploy the matching process in different phases of the service oriented application development process, we settle our research and development work on the novel schema matching techniques aiming at better service discovery and setting up a more efficient mechanism for the reuse and the evolution follow-up of Web services. This work considers and assesses, as another part, the quality of published Web services in order to reinforce the quality of discovery and reuse of service. We expect bringing out of this research and development work the theoretical proposals on novel matching algorithms in the context of Web service (discovery, reuse and evolution tracking) and testing techniques (manual or automatic) for assessing the Web services' quality. For the pratical part, it consists of implementing a Web service discovery platform taking into account the service's reuse, quality and evolution.