In medical analysis field, patients often must visit a multitude of laboratories related web sites in order to check availability, booking, prices, result duration, and find the nearest laboratory. Thus, these varieties of reasons to visit the web sites make limitations on the usability of them. However, to overcome these limitations, this paper proposes a Virtual Medical Analysis Laboratory (VMAL) prototype system which will be based on applying the Semantic Web Services (SWSs) for scheduling outpatient tests in order to discover the suitable laboratory. Furthermore, the proposed prototype will also be based on the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO).
With the greater number of Web Services (WSs) available on the internet, searching the appropriate WS that fulfills the user needs has become a major challenge. In this paper, we propose a Goal-based framework for Web Services (WSs) discovery. The framework employs matching algorithms and allows searching through a set of Semantic Web Services (SWS)s in order to find the most suitable WS that matches with a user Goal. The proposal is implemented and validated using some test collections and real-world scenarios. Moreover, the experimental results showed that the proposed approach has an efficient impact on the discovery process as a whole.
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