USER PROFILE-BASED SERVICE DISCOVERY for eHEALTH

Abstract

Personalization is not very common in Service-oriented Architecture and Service discovery in practice, yet very important as it enables to find more specific and relevant services. This is especially true in the case of complex service, where the system tries to find an optimal combinations of services that together can satisfy a (complex) request. We describe the relation between personalization and service discovery in general, and then concretize this in the proposed Service Discovery Framework (SDF). Personalization effectively improves the quality of the discovery algorithm in SDF. As an application, we show its benefits in the context of eHealth.