The emerging role of electronic marketplaces on the Internet
Communications of the ACM
Web Services Business Strategies and Architectures
Web Services Business Strategies and Architectures
Introduction: Service-oriented computing
Communications of the ACM - Service-oriented computing
Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design
Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design
The future of inter-organisational system linkages: findings of an international Delphi study
European Journal of Information Systems - Special issue: Making enterprise systems work
Using the web service modeling ontology to enable semantic e-business
Communications of the ACM - The semantic e-business vision
Web Services: Concepts, Architectures and Applications
Web Services: Concepts, Architectures and Applications
A marketplace framework for trading cloud-based services
GECON'11 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services
Exploring information diffusion in network of semantically annotated web service interfaces
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
Towards cloud services marketplaces
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Network and Service Management
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Web services are expected to foster the creation of networks of specialists which expose their digital services over the internet for the dynamic discovery of services by other organizations. Given this vision, the question arises whether and how Web services will be traded in the future. Based on a longitudinal study of commercial Web services directories and registries, this paper analyzes the market structure, the role of intermediaries and the Web services offering. The study suggests that the Web services market faces a rather slow evolution with a significant shakeout in 2006. More recently, an increasing professionalization can be observed given that commercial Web services specialists emerge and Web services directories are relaunched. The paper draws conclusions on the future market development and discusses analogies to the newer mashup-oriented service directories.