Information Technology and Management
WSMX - A Semantic Service-Oriented Architecture
ICWS '05 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services
WSMOViz: An Ontology Visualization Approach for WSMO
IV '06 Proceedings of the conference on Information Visualization
Enabling Semantic Web Services: The Web Service Modeling Ontology
Enabling Semantic Web Services: The Web Service Modeling Ontology
A Refined Goal Model for Semantic Web Services
ICIW '07 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services
Architecture for Web Services Filtering and Clustering
ICIW '07 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services
A caching mechanism for semantic web service discovery
ISWC'07/ASWC'07 Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference
IRS-III: a broker for semantic web services based applications
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
Automatic location of services
ESWC'05 Proceedings of the Second European conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications
Using information visualization to support web service discovery
Proceedings of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference on Knowledge, Innovation and Leadership in a Diverse, Multidisciplinary Environment
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We present a goal-based approach for visualizing and browsing the search space of available Web services. A goal describes an objective that a client wants to solve by using Web services, abstracting from the technical details. Our visualization technique is based on a graph structure that organizes goal templates - i.e. generic and reusable objective descriptions - with respect to their semantic similarity, and keeps the relevant knowledge on the available Web services for solving them. This graph is generated automatically from the results of semantically enabled Web service discovery. In contrast to existing tools that categorize the available Web services on the basis of certain description elements, our tool allows clients to browse available Web services on the level of problems that can be solved by them and therewith to better understand the structure as well as the available resources in a domain. This paper explains the theoretic foundations of the approach and presents the prototypical implementation within the Web Service Modeling Toolkit WSMT, an Integrated Development Environment for Semantic Web services.