Facilitating and Improving the Use of Web Services with Data Mining

Abstract

Web services have recently received much attention in businesses. However, a number of challenges such as lack of experience in estimating the costs, lack of service innovation and monitoring, and lack of methods for locating appropriate services are to be resolved. One possible approach is by learning from the experiences in Web services and from other similar situations. Such a task requires the use of data mining to represent generalizations on common situations. This chapter examines how some of the issues of Web services can be addressed through data mining.