Web Services Interaction Mining

As Web services play a more and more important role in information technology, service-oriented systems can also be expected to grow larger in complexity. Such large systems demand for tools that allow for analyzing and monitoring of service-oriented systems in use. Our work attempts to apply data mining and process mining to Web services and their interactions in order to provide a means to analyze interactions between Web service consumer and provider. Firstly, we clarify the term of Web Services Interaction Mining (WSIM) and present three levels of abstraction on which WSIM could be performed: Web service operations, interactions and workflows. Then we outline some of the problems Web Services Interaction Mining (WSIM) could solve. Thirdly, we evaluate how WSIM could be done on these three levels and present a specification for Web service log records. We also discuss how these log records could be obtained using existing tools. We conclude the paper with suggestions on how to develop Web services which can be mined on all three levels of abstraction.