TY - GEN
T1 - Entity-centric search for enterprise services
AU - Roy, Marcus
AU - Weber, Ingo
AU - Benatallah, Boualem
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The consumption of APIs, such as Enterprise Services (ESs) in an enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (eSOA), has largely been a task for experienced developers. With the rapidly growing number of such (Web)APIs, users with little or no experience in a given API face the problem of finding relevant API operations - e.g., mashups developers. However, building an effective search has been a challenge: Information Retrieval (IR) methods struggle with the brevity of text in API descriptions, whereas semantic search technologies require domain ontologies and formal queries. Motivated by the search behavior of users, we propose an iterative keyword search based on entities. The entities are part of a knowledge base, whose content stems from model-driven engineering. We implemented our approach and conducted a user study showing significant improvements in search effectiveness.
AB - The consumption of APIs, such as Enterprise Services (ESs) in an enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (eSOA), has largely been a task for experienced developers. With the rapidly growing number of such (Web)APIs, users with little or no experience in a given API face the problem of finding relevant API operations - e.g., mashups developers. However, building an effective search has been a challenge: Information Retrieval (IR) methods struggle with the brevity of text in API descriptions, whereas semantic search technologies require domain ontologies and formal queries. Motivated by the search behavior of users, we propose an iterative keyword search based on entities. The entities are part of a knowledge base, whose content stems from model-driven engineering. We implemented our approach and conducted a user study showing significant improvements in search effectiveness.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84892379114&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-45005-1_28
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-45005-1_28
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84892379114
SN - 9783642450044
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 404
EP - 412
BT - Service-Oriented Computing - 11th International Conference, ICSOC 2013, Proceedings
T2 - 11th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2013
Y2 - 2 December 2013 through 5 December 2013
ER -