Web Services Non-Functional Classification to Enhance Discovery Speed

Abstract: Recently, the use and deployment of web services has dramatically increased. This is due to the easiness, interoperability, and flexibility that web services offer to the software systems, which other software structures don't support or support poorly. Web services discovery became more important and research conducted in this area became more critical. With the increasing number of published and publicly available web services, speed in web service discovery process is becoming an issue which cannot be neglected. This paper proposes a generic non-functional based web services classification algorithm. Classification algorithm depends on information supplied by web service provider at the registration time. Authors have proved mathematically and experimentally the usefulness and efficiency of proposed algorithm.