Volume 2, Issue 3, March 2013, Pages 230–237
Karamollah Bagherifard1, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi2, Othman Ibrahim3, Norafida Ithnin4, and Lasisi Ayodele Nojeem5
1 Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
2 Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
3 Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
4 Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
5 Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia
Original language: English
Copyright © 2013 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Grid computing, a new and broad area of research, aims at sharing available information and resources through the use of computers over the network. To use the new applications of grid, it is necessary to adapt the modern software components and assembled information resources in a flexible format. Web services incorporate the necessary capabilities in achieving this goal called grid services. Due to the exponentially increasing amount of data, documents, resources and services available on the web, finding an acceptable agreement between the user and the abilities of web or grid service as well as forming an appropriate composition of service components for performing requested operation are critical issues. Measuring the similarity of services is an important and valuable solution that is used in some practical reasoning such as replacement of a service with another and combination of services and applications. Also, because the measuring the service similarity needs an appropriate semantic model, therefore, in this paper a semantic model based on OWL ontology language for services is presented and thus, similarity measure is provided. We find a semantic model for services and then provide a method for measuring the similarity between two services. A mathematical model for solving given problems is also proposed. The results evaluated by F1 measure obviously show the improvement of accuracy against previous method.
Author Keywords: Grid, Web Services, Similarity, Semantic Web.
Karamollah Bagherifard1, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi2, Othman Ibrahim3, Norafida Ithnin4, and Lasisi Ayodele Nojeem5
1 Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
2 Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
3 Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
4 Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
5 Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia
Original language: English
Copyright © 2013 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Grid computing, a new and broad area of research, aims at sharing available information and resources through the use of computers over the network. To use the new applications of grid, it is necessary to adapt the modern software components and assembled information resources in a flexible format. Web services incorporate the necessary capabilities in achieving this goal called grid services. Due to the exponentially increasing amount of data, documents, resources and services available on the web, finding an acceptable agreement between the user and the abilities of web or grid service as well as forming an appropriate composition of service components for performing requested operation are critical issues. Measuring the similarity of services is an important and valuable solution that is used in some practical reasoning such as replacement of a service with another and combination of services and applications. Also, because the measuring the service similarity needs an appropriate semantic model, therefore, in this paper a semantic model based on OWL ontology language for services is presented and thus, similarity measure is provided. We find a semantic model for services and then provide a method for measuring the similarity between two services. A mathematical model for solving given problems is also proposed. The results evaluated by F1 measure obviously show the improvement of accuracy against previous method.
Author Keywords: Grid, Web Services, Similarity, Semantic Web.
How to Cite this Article
Karamollah Bagherifard, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Othman Ibrahim, Norafida Ithnin, and Lasisi Ayodele Nojeem, “Measuring Semantic Similarity in Grids Using Ontology,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 230–237, March 2013.