WSB: a broker-centric framework for quality-driven web service discovery

  • Authors:
  • Eyhab Al-Masri;Qusay H. Mahmoud

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1 Canada;School of Computer Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1 Canada

  • Venue:
  • Software—Practice & Experience
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Web service interfaces can be discovered through several means, including service registries, search engines, service portals, and peer-to-peer networks. But discovering Web services in such heterogeneous environments is becoming a challenging task and raises several concerns, such as performance, reliability, and robustness. In this paper, we introduce the Web Service Broker (WSB) framework that provides a universal access point for discovering Web services. WSB uses a crawler to collect the plurality of Web services disseminated throughout the Web, continuously monitor the behavior of Web services in delivering the expected functionality, and enable clients to articulate service queries tailored to their needs. The framework features ranking algorithms we have developed which are capable of ranking services according to Quality of Web Service parameters. WSB can be seamlessly integrated into the existing service-oriented architectures. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.