A Web Service Market Model based on Dependencies

The construction of composite Web Services from service fragments requires semantic descriptions of service offers and service requests. We propose the use of dependencies as a modeling concept to describe service requests and service offers and outline a Web Service Market, that constructs composite services, offered by a temporary network of economically independent service providers, by resolving dependencies based on coordination theory. Categories and Subject Descriptors C.2.4 [Computer-Communication Networks]: Distributed Systems - distributed applications General Terms Design, Economics, Experimentation, Security Keywords Coordination, Semantic Web, Web Services

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Robert Tolksdorf, Christian Bizer, Ralf Heese
• Keywords: Independent Service Providers, Internet Technology, Service Requests, Web Service Market, WWW 2003