The present invention relates to
network computing and in particular to a method and respective
system for operating a Web Services search method in a networked environment—in particular
the Internet, wherein a
Service Broker is requested by a Service
Consumer for offering Web Services, and a
Service Provider provides a requested
Web Service to the Service
Consumer, and wherein a
Service Provider registers Web Services at the
Service Broker and wherein the Web Services are implemented preferably by respective Remote Portlets running on a Portal
Server of the
Service Provider. In order to increase the search precision and the
recall rate it is proposed to perform the steps of: a) retrieving
data mining input data relating to description details of the inquired Web Services from respective Service descriptions of the inquired Web Services, b) performing a
data mining function on said
data mining input data, wherein a clustering is performed with a distance calculation function including said description details and wherein the clustering yields a cluster model comprising a plurality of clusters and a mapping for each
Web Service to one of said clusters, wherein Web Services having a similar semantic meaning are collected in a
single cluster, yielding a data mining result, c) adding cluster information comprised of said data mining result to a
service model and storing this cluster information in a
database, d) offering search response data based on said cluster model and
service model.