Service-Finder: First Steps toward the realization of Web Service Discovery at Web Scale

The Web is moving from a collection of static documents to one of Web Services. Search engines provide fast and easy access to existing Web pages, however up till now no comprehensive solution exists which provides a similar easy and scalable access to Web Services. The European research project Service-Finder is developed a first version of a portal for service discovery where service related information from heterogeneous sources is automatically integrated in a coherent semantic model to allow effective discovery and to collect user contribution in a