document: Protocol-aware matching of web service interfaces for adapter development With the rapid growth in the number of online Web services , the problem of service adaptation has received significant attention . In matching and adaptation , the functional description of services including interface and data as well as behavioral descriptions are important . Existing work on matching and adaptation focuses only on one aspect . In this paper , we present a semi-automated matching approach that considers both service descriptions . We introduce two protocol-aware service interface matching algorithms , i.e. depth-based interface matching and iterative reference-based interface matching . These algorithms refine the results of interface matching by incorporating the ordering constraints imposed by business protocol definitions on service operations . We have implemented a prototype and performed experiments using the specification of synthetic and real-world Web services . Experiments show that the proposed approaches lead to a significant improvement in the quality of matching between services .
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