Manuscript Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL RANKING MECHANISM AND SEARCH ENGINE IN WEB OF THINGS

Author:

MUHAMMAD REHAN FAHEEM, TAYYABA ANEES, MUZAMMIL HUSSAIN

DOI Number:

DOI:10.17605/OSF.IO/DA27F

Published : 2022-11-10

About the author(s)

1. MUHAMMAD REHAN FAHEEM - School of Systems & Technology, Department of Computer Science, University of Management & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.
2. TAYYABA ANEES - School of Systems & Technology, Department of Computer Science, University of Management & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.
3. MUZAMMIL HUSSAIN - School of Systems & Technology, Department of Computer Science, University of Management & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.

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Abstract

Nowadays, we live in a global village where many physical objects (Things) are connected to the Internet and are accessible through a web interface. Recent researches on the subject show that there has been a significant increase in the number of IoT devices during the last decade, which has attracted many researchers. Efficient searching of the Things connected to the Internet requires indexing and ranking, which are the two vital factors in the performance of search engines. Ranking is based on parameters such as the types of Things, services, current and historical locations, descriptions and features. The existing ranking techniques use either services, features or current locations as parameters for ranking, but other parameters such as historical location, type, and description are not profoundly analyzed in terms of performance. In this paper, a novel ranking mechanism for the Web of Things Search Engine (RMoWoTSE) is proposed, which ranks the indexed Things efficiently by using a combination of parameters and individual parameters. Results indicate that the accuracy, precision, recall and f-measure of the proposed ranking approach (RMoWoTSE) is better when a combination of ranking parameters is used compared to using individual ranking parameters


Keywords

Discovery of Things, Indexing, Internet of Things, Query, Ranking, Selection, Web of Things.