Title: A taxonomy and classification of web service QoS elements

Authors: Manish Godse, Umesh Bellur, Rajendra Sonar

Addresses: Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 400076, India. ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 400076, India. ' Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 400076, India

Abstract: A key problem in service oriented computing is that of service selection. Selecting the appropriate service depends upon an understanding of two major classes of requirements: functional and quality of service (QoS). There may be multiple service providers satisfying the functional requirements with varying QoS. Thus, QoS becomes a service-differentiating criterion of selection. Choosing the service with the best match of QoS requirements is a multi-criteria decision-making problem that needs a thorough understanding of QoS. There are multiple stakeholders involved in the process of service recommendation who may have varying concerns on the QoS attributes. What is needed is a comprehensive taxonomy of QoS parameters and their relationships that can form QoS ontology of web services. In this paper, we present such ontology.

Keywords: quality of service; QoS; web services; ontology; taxonomy; service oriented computing; service selection; multicriteria decision making; MCDM.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCNDS.2011.038521

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 2011 Vol.6 No.2, pp.118 - 141

Published online: 26 Feb 2015 *

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