An Extensible Platform to Evaluate Semantic Web Services Automatic Composition Approaches

Abstract

The problem of automatically composing Web Services that can match client's request has been the focus of several researchers. However, only a small number of such studies have evaluated and compared these different techniques on equal terms. Generally, these techniques have been evaluated on an ad hoc basis. This article presents a platform for evaluating the different techniques for the automatic composition of Semantic Web Services. The proposed platform provides: (i) an extensible architecture that enables the inclusion and evaluation of different techniques; (ii) a suite of metrics aimed at evaluating these techniques.