Automatic measurement of a QoS metric for Web Service recommendation

Abstract

Web Services have enabled businesses and organizations to collaborate without platform interoperability and programming language barriers. Quality of Service (QoS) of a web service is an important factor that differentiates similar services offered by different service providers. Such a measure would allow web service clients to choose and bind to a suitable web service at run time (based on QoS attributes). Some researchers have proposed the integration of the QoS measure on the web service directory server. However, a mechanism to maintain the QoS metric has not been defined yet. In this paper, we propose such a mechanism. This mechanism involves automated measurement of QoS attributes on ..