The process of searching, matching a machine-processable description of a Web service. It aims to find appropriate web services to meet the requirement of the customers.
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Case Based Web Services
Zhaohao Sun (University of Ballarat, Australia), Gavin Finnie (Bond University, Australia), and John Yearwood (University of Ballarat, Australia)
Copyright: © 2010
|Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-611-7.ch087
Abstract
Web services are Internet-based application components published using standard interface description languages and universally available via uniform communication protocols (Singh & Huhns, 2005). Web services can be also considered the provision of services over electronic networks such as the Internet and wireless networks (Rust & Kannan, 2003). Web services is a new computing paradigm that has drawn increasing attention in information technology (Deitel, et al, 2004, p.13), information systems, and is playing a pivotal role in service computing and service intelligence (Singh & Huhns, 2005). Web services is a new business paradigm that is playing an important role in e-business, ecommerce and business intelligence (Wang, et al, 2006). The key motive for the rapid development of web services is the ability to discover services that fulfil users’ demands, negotiate service contracts and have the services delivered where and when the users request them (Tang, et al, 2007). The current research trend is to add intelligent techniques to web services to facilitate discovery, invocation, composition, and recommendation of web services (Wang, et al, 2006).