Combining Query and Preference - An Approach to Fully Automatize Dynamic Service Binding

  • Authors:
  • Michael Klein;Birgitta König-Ries

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Karlsruhe, Germany;Technische Universität München, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICWS '04 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Web services will only have advantages over existing technologies if the service binding can be performed dynamically. However, existing service description languages do not contain enough information for a computer agent to do the selection automatically during runtime onbehalf of the user. This results from the fact that in mostapproaches the offer description language doubles as a request language,which prevents the requestor from a precise formulation of requests and preferences. Therefore, in this paper, we emphasize the need for a distinguishedservice request language that allows to capture all of therequestor's preferences. We present a concrete techniqueto represent such preference-containing requests, whichis based on fuzzy object sets.