Response-Time Analysis of Composite Web Services

  • Authors:
  • Daniel A. Menascé

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A single Internet application can invoke many different Web services for example, the metasearch engine WebSifter uses several online ontologies to refine a user's request into a more meaningful query and then submits that query to various search engines in parallel. We call such applications composite Web services. As I discussed in a previous column, many important challenges stem from the quality-of-service issues in composite Web services. In this column, I address the impact of slow services on the overall response time of a transaction that uses several Web services in parallel.