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Discovery of RESTful Web Services Based on the OpenAPI 3.0 Standard with Semantic Annotations

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Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2024)

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Due to the large quantity and diversity of computational services currently available, there is a need for mechanisms to automatically discover services taking into account the requirements of potential customers. This work is focused on the discovery of RESTful web services described using the OpenAPI/Swagger language extended through semantic annotations. Service discovery is based on functional and non-functional requirements, which define the profile of the RESTful service sought by the customer. In order to enable semantic discovery, a profile ontology for RESTful services was created. Service descriptions were stored in a database, and mappings between ontology elements and database elements were defined. As a result, service discovery can be performed by executing SPARQL queries on the database. For experimental validation, we added a set of REST descriptions to the database and executed SPARQL queries and similarity algorithms to locate the desired services.

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This study was financed in part by CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) - Brazil, Finance Code 001.

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  1. Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

    Alberto Tuti Soki & Frank Siqueira

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    Leonard Barolli

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Soki, A.T., Siqueira, F. (2024). Discovery of RESTful Web Services Based on the OpenAPI 3.0 Standard with Semantic Annotations. In: Barolli, L. (eds) Advanced Information Networking and Applications. AINA 2024. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 200. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57853-3_3

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