A model for web services discovery with QoS

TLDR

Web services technology has attracted significant interest, yet its adoption remains slow. The study examines why adoption lags, attributing part of the delay to insufficient quality‑of‑service considerations. It proposes a discovery model that integrates functional and quality‑of‑service requirements into service selection. The model is expected to enhance consumer confidence in the quality of discovered services.

Abstract

Web services technology has generated a lot interest, but its adoption rate has been slow. This paper discusses issues related to this slow take up and argues that quality of services is one of the contributing factors. The paper proposes a new Web services discovery model in which the functional and non-functional requirements (i.e. quality of services) are taken into account for the service discovery. The proposed model should give Web services consumers some confidence about the quality of service of the discovered Web services.