Semantic Web Service Discovery Approaches: A Comparative Study

Nowadays, Web services are well involved in business computing for the development of distributed applications through diverse networks. In fact, finding the appropriate Web service meeting users' requirements (Web service discovery) becomes a crucial issue. In the literature review, many Web service discovery approaches have been proposed to in order to make easy the Web service discovery process. Existing approaches are different in terms of objective, issue to handle with, used techniques/methods, etc. In this paper, we propose, first, a literature review on approaches addressing semantic Web service discovery. Second, we provide a comparative study between these approaches on the basic of multiple criteria such as scalability, heterogeneity, context-awareness, accuracy, etc.