Web service schema matching based on characteristic vector

Web service schema matching is the preliminary treatment phase of service composition and service mashup. With the entry and exit of large numbers of services on the Internet, it will be difficult to find and suggest the most relevant service candidates for new composition and mashup. In this work, we present an approach for web service schema matching based on characteristic vector consisted of multi-type service parameter information element. This schema matching approach is different form the main syntactical-based and semantic-based matching approaches, and will predict schema relationship more effectively and adaptable for web service. An experiment on real data shows the effectiveness of this approach.