Similarity Search for Web Services

Summary: Woogle provides similarity search for web services, enabling discovery of similar operations and compositions, beyond keyword matching. The approach exploits service structure and semantics with novel algorithms, validated on 1500 operations, achieving high recall and precision. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9340
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 5.7303405e-05
Overall Rank: 6,979 | 52.12%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088469-8/50036-4

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Xin Dong (University of Washington)
2. Alon Halevy (University of Washington)
3. Jayant Madhavan (University of Washington)
4. Ema Nemes (University of Washington)
5. Jun Zhang (University of Washington)

BibTeX Citation

@article{dong_vldb04,
        title = {{Similarity Search for Web Services}},
        author = {Dong, Xin and Halevy, Alon and Madhavan, Jayant and Nemes, Ema and Zhang, Jun},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        pages = {372--383},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8/50036-4},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8/50036-4},
        year = {2004}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
917	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013224381
1,162	Principles of Dataspace Systems	2006	PODS	0.00011866011
10,012	Structures, Semantics and Statistics	2004	VLDB	5.1770908e-05
12,367	Querying Contract Databases Based on Temporal Behavior	2011	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
263	Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach	2001	SIGMOD	0.0002305693
390	COMA - A system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches	2002	VLDB	0.00019382486

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