A Decision Tree Approach to Classify Web Services using Quality Parameters

Abstract: With the increase in the number of web services, many web services are available on internet providing the same functionality, making it difficult to choose the best one, fulfilling users all requirements. This problem can be solved by considering the quality of web services to distinguish functionally similar web services. Nine different quality parameters are considered. Web services can be classified and ranked using decision tree approach since they do not require long training period and can be easily interpreted. Various decision tree and rules approaches available are applied and tested to find the optimal decision method to correctly classify functionally similar web services considering their quality parameters.