Abstract

Abstract. With the envisioned proliferation of Web services available on the WWW and private repositories, new and better support techniques are needed for service discovery and organization to stay manageable. Service classification under hierarchic taxonomies is commonly a key feature for properly organizing service repositories in a rational way, as well as a good foundation for sophisticated retrieval techniques. In this paper, a heuristic approach for the semi-automatic classification of (semantic) Web services is proposed, based on matching new unclassified services to previously classified ones in a given corpus. This hypothesis is validated by an experimental test and the comparison with results achieved by other approaches. 1

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