Enhancing service discovery using cat swarm optimisation based web service clustering

Summary Web service discovery is a critical task in service oriented application development. Due to extensive proliferation in the number of available services, it is challenging to obtain all the relevant services available for a given task. For the retrieval of most relevant Web services, a user would have to use those service-specific terms that best describe and match the natural language documentation contained within a service description. This process can be time intensive, due to functional diversity of available services in a repository. Domain specific clustering of Web Services based on the similarities of their functionalities would greatly boost the ability of a Web service search engine to retrieve the most relevant service. In this paper, we propose a novel technique to cluster service documents into functionally similar service groups using the Cat Swarm Optimisation Algorithm. We present experimental results that show that the proposed technique was effective and enhanced the process of service discovery.