Web service discovery based on IR models: A review

Web service discovery is one of the major research thrust areas in the field of computing environment. From last decade, a good number of researchers are contributing their thoughts in finding the best available service from a pool of services that can satisfy the user's requirement. Different researchers have adopted different methodologies and ideas to visualize their noble thoughts in the field of web service discovery. Information retrieval methods are one of them. Utilization of IR methods in service discovery approaches makes the discovery process efficient. In this paper, we focus on those service discovery approaches which employ information retrieval methods for the purpose of automatic discovery. This paper provides a survey of how these approaches differ from each other while discovering a service.