Utilizing fuzzy Petri net for choreography based semantic web services discovery

Abstract

Semantic Web Services have received great popularity these days for their capability of providing more automatic web services discoveries and compositions. However, the issue of behavior compatibility is still not properly solved. In this paper, we propose a choreographybased formal approach to discover semantic web services that are compatible with their behaviors. The fuzzy petri net is used to perform the modeling, verification, analysis and evaluation for the matchmaking of semantic web services. The requested and provided services are modeled by two fuzzy petri nets combined through a set of combination rules. By analyzing the composite fuzzy petri net, the behavior compatibility can be verified, and the matching degree between requested and provided services can be obtained. With our approach, the success rate and accuracy of the semantic web services discoveries can be improved, and the final services set can be optimized. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.